[Tagging] address numbers for non existent objects

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Mar 16, 2022, 18:39 by f at zz.de:

>
> 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. 
>
It depends on location (that is why I mentioned that I do not recommend 
verifying and importing addresses in Poland if you are unfamiliar with addressing
in Poland).

> I see the addresses in OSM as an superset of addresses available,
> published and used.
>
Do you mean that unused and bogus officially assigned addresses
should be imported?

Examples include for example addresses
assigned to plots that were bought by government and motorway
was constructed there, many of them were never used.
Which were not cancelled so far.

Or single address being represented as 6 separate addresses (with
the same housenumber, all located with 10m from each other).

Or other issues with official data like
addr:housenumber=Niebieska
add:streetname=12
(formatted in OSM format for clarity)

Or broken enconding. Or...

Some local governments fix such such bogus entries on report.
So far thousands were reported and large majority was fixed in the
official database after OSM mappers reported them to authorities.

> So what defines "is being used" and what is the problem with putting
> ALL the used addresses into OSM?
>
I have no problem with putting addresses being used (or even likely to be used soon)

But in some cases it is a subset of the official database.
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