[Tagging] Fwd: Door to door routing to buildings with multiple occupants

[Friedrich Volkmann]

On 02.12.2012 16:26, Kytömaa Lauri wrote:
> Ronnie Soak wrote:
>> Several addresses per building: addr:* tags on entrance nodes along the building outline.
>
> Just a reminder that in many countries buildings can have several addresses, each address on different streets; none of the addresses is a "primary" address, and all staircases of said building are referenced just with a letter after any of the possible street addresses. The numbers can be on a separate lamp on each wall, away from any entrances. Which means that the house numbers really have to go as separate nodes inside the building

This is covered by my proposal:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/Multiple_addresses

No need for floating address nodes.

> and each entrance only has the ref=letter on them.

The approved tag for staircase letters (or numbers) is addr:unit=*, although 
addr:staircase=* would seem more reasonable to me.

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Friedrich K. Volkmann       http://www.volki.at/
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