[Tagging] housenumber on node and area

Jean-Marc Liotier jm at liotier.org
Wed May 27 08:00:58 UTC 2015


On 27/05/2015 09:47, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>> Am 27.05.2015 um 09:38 schrieb Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org>:
>>
>> Absent any information, tagging the plot is better than nothing. A building is better - and even better is the main entrance or an even finer scheme to separate entrance and postbox.
> By using an area we can omit the repetition of the address on all pois inside this area.
Indeed, that seems like a case where area is superior.

There may be other ways to cover this case. Among them I stumbled upon 
the associatedAddress relation at 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/associatedAddress#Relation_associatedAddress 
but I have no idea about its relevance - I am definitely out of my depth 
here...




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