[OSM-talk-be] Addresses in Belgium

[Jan-willem De Bleser]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Sander Deryckere <sanderd17 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Who says that the closest street is in the associatedstreet relation. That
> relation has nothing to do with the closest street, only with the
> administrative division of houses into streets.
>
> Look at this relation: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1869108
>

Hang on, by "closest street" you mean "closest way of a street mapped
as multiple ways"? It's my understanding that, when this is the case,
a house is associated with the way on which it lies. That relation
1869108 is an example of incorrect mapping, as far as I can see.

Addresses are associated with a particular stretch of street, aren't
they? I've always taken associatedStreet as a relation trying to
represent this mapping. Or would you maintain that this is true, but
that the stretch of street belonging to an address bears no relation
to where the plot of land belonging to that address is?

- Jw