[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

[Andrew Shadura]

On 19 January 2015 at 11:08, Friedrich Volkmann <bsd at volki.at> wrote:
> That's wrong, as I've already explained in another message. When you write a
> letter to an address in Austria using a conscription number, you MUST omit
> the street name. Otherwise the letter will be returned as undeliverable.

> Similarly, the official address at a given time either contains a
> street+housenumber or a conscription number, not both. In villages where
> street+housenumber combinations are introduced, the conscription numbers
> become officially invalid. The reason why we want to keep them in OSM is
> that conscription numbers often remain in use for a long time, and the
> conscription number plates often stay in place (see photos in the proposals).

Both statements are actually untrue.

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Cheers,
  Andrew