[Tagging] Tagging fraction house numbers?

Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhauser at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 19:06:14 UTC 2018


I found it hard to pull out usage of "1/2" through taginfo, but was able to
search for usage of the UTF-8 version (½):
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=%C2%BD#values It's used very few
times (~200) and many are by the same user, which seems like more argument
against using UTF-8.

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:17 AM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:

> so far the fractions I've seen are ½ and ¾ and ¼. On phones it's very easy
> to input fraction in unicode(press and hold the numerical value of the
> numerator: 1 for ½, ¼ or 2 for ⅔), but I agree that dealing with Bom of
> UTF-8 usually ends up being messed up and is why I'm asking what the norm
> for OSM is
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 12:04 PM Vladimír Slávik, <Slavik.Vladimir at seznam.cz>
> wrote:
>
>> Technical: Unicode will be hard to manipulate by hand without a table of
>> characters/symbols to copy from. Subsequent editors or users down the chain
>> of tools will break it. Most prominently, search may break, because users
>> will not know how to input 1/2. (Oh look, I just didn't, either...).
>>
>> Is it common to have more complicated fractions? Here we append letters
>> to do the same, and I have seen places where they had to go all the way to
>> "h" - which would be 1/8 for you? Or 8/8? Does unicode even have 8/8? I
>> haven't been able to find a decisive answer.
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>> Předmět: [Tagging] Tagging fraction house numbers?
>>
>> https://i.imgur.com/eigT5hX_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&
>> fidelity=medium
>>
>> How should this be tagged in housenumber? Using unicode ( ½ ) or ASCII(
>> 1/2 )?
>>
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