[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addr:interpolation on closed ways and nodes

[Paul Allen]

On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 21:42, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 3:42 PM Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Third solution.  We realize that there is no character we can designate
>> to act as a range indicator because those characters appear in
>> addresses that are not ranges.  We come up with something similar
>> in syntax to addr:flats to deal with ranges.  This may require a
>> lot of retagging over time, but the current options are broken in
>> one or more ways.
>>
>
> My guess is that a double hyphen might be able to achieve the desired
> effect; I don't see it used very much, and it's natural to anyone who's
> used something like BibTeX.
>

Or TeX itself.  But most typographers these days don't bother using
an en-dash to represent numeric ranges.


> But my guess is that it'll be a bridge too far.
>

Probably.  Only people who read the documentation would know
to use it.  Better to have addr:housenumber_range that would
be displayed in address presets, or something like that.

-- 
Paul
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