[OSM-newbies] Interpolation of House Numbers

[David ``Smith'']

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Mike N. <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> PS.
>
>  About Un-named streets.   I use the name to distinguish between the street
> and address interpolation way (although I could instead look for highway=
> xxx ).     It would be useful to associate the houses with the street using
> a relation as you are creating them.   Currently I require a name to
> proceed, but there may be valid cases of unnamed streets.    If you have
> unnamed streets, I can change it to work using an associated street
> relation, but  I'll need to think about this a bit since that will create
> many anonymous street relations that are hard to distinguish in the editor
> or even in Geo-Navigating applications.

Perhaps your plugin should look for a street's "addr:street=*" tag for
matching the interpolation way's "addr:street=*" tag, and if that's
not present, try to match on "name=*".  It's very possible for the
houses on a street to have a different address than the street's
actual name, if it has one, and I think in those cases it would be
sensible for that street to be tagged with both "name=*" and
"addr:street=*" having different values.  (Example: houses with
"Walker Road" addresses might be actually located on "Old Walker
Road".  Or maybe you'd have the abbreviated street name in
"addr:street=*" because the addresses are always written with
abbreviations...)

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