[OSM-talk-be] Addresses in Belgium

[Jo]

2012/12/24 A.Pirard.Papou <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com>

>  On 2012-12-23 22:21, Jo wrote :
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> The easiest way is to simply add addr:housenumber nodes. It's hard to do
> anything wrong with that.
>
> If the building is an area, it's a good idea to put the number on a node
> instead of on the way, so that it doesn't fight with the restaurant name
> for room inside the area.  Plenty of examples around here<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/42705253>.
> But you may prefer not to tag for the renderer ;-)
>
> One step further is to add addr:interpolation vectors. Add the numbers on
> the streetcorners and the special cases like 5A (also add 5 and 6 in that
> case) and a way in between.
>
> This recalls me when I built my house.  The numbers next were 1 and 3.
> Went to the adm and explained that.
> - no problem, you'll get n°2
> - (surprised that n°2 isn't opposite) OK, but there are two houses between
> 1 and 3
> - no problem, you'll get n° 2A, see in the box, 2A and 2B are prepared
> - OK, but my house is the second one
> - no problem, you get n° 2B, then
> No problem, OSM did not exist yet, because it lasted a few years until all
> the house were renumbered and the place name changed, some persons were in
> another street too.
>

Normally one would expect 5A, 5B, etc to be between 5 and 7, but I have
found streets where 1A and 1B come before 1. It all depends on which houses
were built first, I presume.

Jo
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