[Tagging] housenumber on node and area

[Marc Gemis]

Be careful in which country you do this, never do this in Denmark e.g. [1]
How do you deal with buildings with multiple addresses ? Or does not not
exist in your part of the world (honest question) ?

regards

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses#Denmark



On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:16 PM, pmailkeey . <pmailkeey at googlemail.com>
wrote:

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> On 21 May 2015 at 02:08, Ross <info at 4x4falcon.com> wrote:
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>> On 21/05/15 09:51, pmailkeey . wrote:
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>> On 20 May 2015 at 14:10, André Pirard <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> We know that addr:housenumber
>>> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr>=* can be tagged on nodes
>>> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses#How_to_map_addresses> and
>>> that it's very convenient.
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>>  But wrong.
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>> Why?  It's all very well that this may be you opinion but the wiki and
>> accepted practice says otherwise.
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> Address = building = area, not node. It's 'accepted' as a second best
> option for where a building hasn't been drawn. I find quite a lot of them
> and remove them by transferring the data to the buildings - sometimes
> there's a building and a loose node containing the same data! In those
> cases, a simple node deletion is required.
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