[Tagging] Is there any case of valid numeric addr:housename - for example addr:housename?

Andy Townsend ajt1047 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 11:49:49 UTC 2020


On 30/06/2020 14:06, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
> We have 15000 addresses such as addr:housename=3 ( 
> http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/VBS )
>
> Is there some chance that any of them is valid? Because it seems to me 
> that
> editors should complain about addr:housename with just numbers.

Any?  Quite possibly:

https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/

(especially "A building name won't also be a number").  Pretty much 
every edge case exists somewhere.

I doubt that those 15k are all valid though.

Best Regards,

Andy





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