[Imports] [Talk-us-newyork] [Imports-us] Draft proposal for import of New York State GIS SAM Address Points

[Skyler Hawthorne]

I see, thanks for your feedback guys. I'll leave all tags there.

The use case I was considering was because I've encountered several end user products based on OSM that do not handle addr:unit well, or at all, including OSMAnd, Magic Earth, and even Nominatim. If I'm not mistaken, not a single one bothers to index/search on addr:unit/flats, so what ends up happening is when someone searches for an address of one of these buildings with multiple units, it will return dozens of identical looking results, which is a bad experience.

But I suppose however common it is, it is a shortcoming of the end user products, and there is sense in avoiding massaging the data to work around those limitations.

Jan 21, 2021 12:34:19 Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>:

> On 1/21/21 11:40 AM, Skyler Hawthorne wrote:
>> Also, just another thought to add: I was considering the case of adding
>> multiple address points to the interior of a large building, such as
>> retail buildings, where each point is the unit.
>> 
>> In these cases, the present behavior is to add the full address with all
>> tags to the node, thus we end up with several nodes that all have the
>> same address on it, with only the unit differentiating them.
>> 
>> I was wondering if it wouldn't be desirable to try to detect when all
>> the address points inside a building have the same primary address, and
>> in this case, conflate the primary address tags on the building, and
>> have the points inside be only the addr:unit.
> 
> i would rather not do this. it would significantly complicated searches
> via overpass and in general the construction of data consumers. without
> a very clear and obvious benefit from doing so, i'd say don't.
> 
> richard
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