[Tagging] RFC 2 - addr:interval

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Right now it is unclear is addr:housenumber=1-31 used in meaning 
"addresses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... to 31" or "single address '1-31'".

There is no way to specify this, and both meanings are in use.

See also https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/565#issuecomment-272725116

Jan 6, 2021, 18:10 by marc_marc at mailo.com:

> Hello,
>
> Le 06.01.21 à 17:34, Jmapb a écrit :
>
>> there are a lot of corner cases
>> affect millions of people.
>>
>
> can you list some "real world" issues are your trying to fix and
> currently unable to fix with the existing schema ?
> i'm reading
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/addr:interval and
> didn't find any
> of course if you use addr:housenumber=1-5 for "even number from 1 to 5",
> that's a very bad idea
> addr:housenumber=1;3;5 fix that that wihout the need of adding
> addr:interval=2 or addr:interval=even for that
>
> let's try to avoid having one additional standards to fill multiple addr
> https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
>
> PS: "changes needed" section is full of "not under your control" stuff.
> it usually lists all wiki pages that need to be modified, any accepted
> proposal could list "all tools using this data must be modified" and
> that users may use it, that's not the purpose of this section
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
>
>
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