[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

[John F. Eldredge]

On 01/19/2015 03:39 AM, Friedrich Volkmann wrote:
> On 18.01.2015 22:23, Markus Lindholm wrote:
>> I think that comes down to how addresses are viewed, either as a
>> proper feature in their one right or as an attribute to some other
>> feature.
>
> Yes, that's the crux.
>
>> I think addresses are proper features, so a distinct address
>> should be found only once in the database.
>
> And I see it the other way. Addresses are just attributes. It may pendend on
> the country, I don't know. In Austria and most certainly in entire central
> Europe, an address is always bound to a building, apartment or strictly
> delimited plot of land. An address cannot exist on its own. Every address
> includes a housenumber, indicating that there's a house. There are no
> addresses in the midst of a lake or somewhere in the cliffs.
>

If you have a "strictly delimited plot of land", with no house currently 
built upon it, but which is intended for later construction, does it 
have a house number?  Or is the address only assigned once a building is 
built?

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