[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

[Markus Lindholm]

On 16 January 2015 at 01:04, Friedrich Volkmann <bsd at volki.at> wrote:
> We can discuss its pros and cons, but I
> think the main message is that multiple addresses are mapped differently all
> over the world. Every country has its local OSM community which concoct
> their own tagging rules. The result is database full of tags that are
> understood by the local mappers, maybe by local applications too, but not by
> mappers or applications from other countries. We really need some unifying
> tagging scheme suitable for all kinds of addresses worldwide.

What we don't need is yet another special case mapping scheme like addrN

Have you had the time to look at the existing relation of type=provides_feature
http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Provides_feature
and how you can use it to associate multiple addresses to a building.

/Markus