[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

[Markus Lindholm]

On 15 January 2015 at 12:43, Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-01-15 12:23 GMT+01:00 Andrew Shadura <andrew at shadura.me>:
>>
>> On 15 January 2015 at 03:02, johnw <johnw at mac.com> wrote:
>> > The proposal seems to be a good solution to this problem.
>>
>> This particular proposal seems to be a terrible solution to this
>> problem. It requires changes to the software, and the tagging scheme
>> is ugly as hell. At the same time, there's much simpler and better
>> solution: placing address nodes inside the building polygon. This is
>> already used, supported by any sort of software which can process
>> regular OSM address tags, and it's not as ugly as addrN:.
>
>
> With addrN:*=* it's clear that the same place has two addresses. If there
> are two nodes, it seems like there are two places (Two entrances, two
> apartments, two rooms), each with it's own address. AddrN* is clearly
> superior in this aspect.

For an absolute majority of cases it should be enough with address
nodes that resides inside a building polygon. If their really is a
need to explicitly associate multiple addresses to a single building
then use the provides_feature relation.
http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Provides_feature

/Markus