[Tagging] housenumber on node and area

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:22 PM, pmailkeey . <pmailkeey at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Building is the 'common' example. In cases where plots of land receive
> things then the plot area should have the address. If there are many
> buildings but only one address, where is the mail to be delivered ? Put the
> address on that building. In the US where there are mailboxes with the
> little flags on them it seems correct to put the address on the node for
> that box. Common sense really.


This falls flat in areas where the postal service ignores the ground truth
and invents their own addresses (similarly: postal ZIPs versus census
ZIPs).  Rural routes are just one example of this.  I'd be more willing to
say "What address would 911 use?" or "What does the county cadastre list it
as?"  These are very likely to be the same.
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