[Tagging] Adding floor location information

[John Willis]

Javbw
> On Sep 30, 2015, at 6:52 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But in some countries, the floor information is actually part of the address.

Thats great, please tag it as such. 

I'm not saying addr:floor shouldn't exist - it should. Im saying that encoding non-address information into address is pollution of the addr:* tag. 

In large facilities with a single mail address or large numbers of buildings  (universities, military bases) have "building" numbers to denote which building - not a street address, but just an assigned number that is usually included in it's postal routing info. This is the use of addr:place

I dont think we should jam every building name and ref, suite number (addr:unit) or business designation (ref=)in there becuase it is **not part of its address** 

OSM will have some tags and some tag values that exist regionally like the multiple addresses per building discussion a few months ago.

So what works for military bases or your buildings or my malls may be different and differently tagged (which is why there are so many addr:*=x tags) to prevent garbage information ending up in the particular address fields useful for routing and mailing things, AFAIK.

Javbw.