[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

[Will Phillips]

I support using the addrN:* tagging proposed here in the specific 
situation where a single residence or business has multiple addresses. 
Note I am not referring to a building with multiple occupiers, but a 
single addressee with more than one address. In England I have never 
encountered this situation for residential addresses, but have done so 
very occasionally for shops and other businesses.

Here is an example:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/290380382

In cases like this there is probably only one 'official' address, but if 
the available sources are contradictory it is desirable to record both. 
This situation sometimes arises when a business decides their official 
address is confusing and they then invent another one which they think 
is clearer for people trying to find them.

I think it's rarely a good idea to add the same feature twice, which is 
the obvious alternative for tagging this. I dislike the idea of using 
relations for multiple addresses because it's over-complicating things: 
a lot of mappers find relations confusing.

I do not support using addrN:* tagging for the common case of multiple 
occupancy buildings. It simply does not work in a lot of cases, because 
different businesses in one building also require different names and 
other tags and I don't think we want to start using name:2=* office:2=*, 
and so on, to distinguish them.

Cheers,
Will

On 15/01/2015 01:46, Friedrich Volkmann wrote:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/addrN
>
> I once made a proposal for multiple addresses, which I think was fairly
> eleborate, but too complex. This is now a simplified version, and hopefully
> more acceptable. This tagging scheme is already in use (e.g. > 7000
> occurances of addr2:housenumber), but unfortunately limited to one country
> or so, due to a lack of international communication and documentation. I
> hope that this proposal will get it a wider audience, and that application
> support will subsequently improve.
>