[Tagging] housenumber on node and area

[Marc Gemis]

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:39 AM, pmailkeey . <pmailkeey at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Addresses are used to identify buildings. Not all buildings need to be
> identified.


Did you ever look at the example that I've send you ? (probably not because
it doesn't fit in your idea of addresses)  The house numbers are used to
identity flats, not the building. 8 different house numbers, 4 on the
ground floor, 4 on the first. I don't remember where the mailboxes are
located, they are probably grouped somewhere on the ground floor so the
mailman does not have to take the stairs. But someone delivering a package
to the front door might want to know that they have to take the stair and
then follow the corridor to the Xth door.

As many people have pointed out, addresses are used for many different
things (mailboxes, entrances, buildings, rooms within building (e.g.
Suite), parcels). But you keep on insisting on your view: address ==>
building.
But then at a certain moment you said that an address could go on a node
and on a building. And when someone asks you to explain that, you start
throwing back questions without explaining what you meant.

So please sit back, relax and accept that not everyone shares your view.
Addresses will be mapped as nodes, on buildings and as interpolation lines.
This is OSM, this is accepted and the data consumers can (or have to) live
with that.

have a nice Friday

m
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