[Tagging] AddrN

Andrew Shadura andrew at shadura.me
Wed Jan 21 12:00:40 UTC 2015


On 21 January 2015 at 13:17, Friedrich Volkmann <bsd at volki.at> wrote:
>> And
>> if that's the case, what's wrong with creating a node on the building for
>> each additional valid address?  People looking for an amenity could look up
>> closest POIs after finding a secondary address.  It's not a clean situation,
>
> It's a "best guess" approach, delivering lots of false positives, because
> the scope of address nodes is undefined. The address may be valid for the
> whole building, or only part of the building, or even for multiple buildings
> (take my postal address as an example).

But that's not precisely true. The scope of an address node inside a
building outline is this building. If you want to specify an address
for a part of a building only, just split that building.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew



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