[Tagging] address numbers for non existent objects

[Florian Lohoff]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 05:05:58AM +0100, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
> Handling addresses assigned to empty field/forests/wetlands is an ongoing 
> question among mappers in Poland and not entirely solved (in general importing
> ones that will be likely in use in say 10 years is considered OK, but importing some
> wild plans like addresses assigned to protected wetland is considered as a bad idea).

How do you actually determine whether addresses are being used? For
Germany i have seen Addresses being assigned to Cell Towers, underground
sewage pumps, public toilets, power substations etc. So its sometimes
not obvious where an address belongs to and WHO is actually using it and for WHAT. 

I see the addresses in OSM as an superset of addresses available,
published and used. If you compare address sets of different
stakeholders like telecoms, public services, government etc you most
likely have 98% overlap. And the last 2% of addresses are for sometimes
strange uses.

So what defines "is being used" and what is the problem with putting
ALL the used addresses into OSM?

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                     f at zz.de
  Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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