[Tagging] Tagging a corner address with addr:street:corner=*

[Friedrich Volkmann]

On 17.01.2015 23:47, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
> But imagine for a minute that you are back in
> the 1990s (without GPS) in a third-world country and you only have a paper
> map. If you are given a restaurant to visit with an address such as #45
> Ayala Avenue, you would, in the worst case, go down the whole length of
> Ayala Avenue looking for the correct house number. But if instead you were
> given Ayala Avenue corner Makati Avenue, then you can go straight to the
> intersection and just look around for the restaurant.

One difference between Europe and the Philippines may be that housenumbers
in Europe were invented for administration, not for retrieval or navigation.
I should add that cities were smaller at that time (18th century). There was
no need to search for a restaurant. You either knew it, or you didn't need it.

> I prefer addr:corner_street instead of addr:street_corner. After all, the
> data to be recorded under the key is the name for a street, not a corner.
> addr:corner is not quite easy to understand without the proper context.

addr:corner_street is not easy to understand without the context either.

> addr:street1=* would potentially be confused with the addrN proposal.

You may be right, because there's one pitfall: street+street2 need to be
used in combination, while addr+addr2 are alternatives.

> Would
> you and others agree that addr:corner_street is the best choice? If yes,
> I'll bring this topic up on our mailing list.

I don't have a clear preference.

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