[OSM-talk-be] addr:street on way

[Gilbert Hersschens]

I agree with Marc. My interpretation of the wiki is also that address tags
don't belong on highways.
Haven't seen any of those in my backyard so far...
Just my 2 cents.

On 16 September 2014 21:10, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Glenn Plas <glenn at byte-consult.be> wrote:
>
>> This looks to be a bigger problem than I thought.    TAA is doing this
>> everywhere.  Checking the wiki, this isn't even wrong actually.
>>
>> I quote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr
>>
>> "A way with highway=* and the corresponding name should be found nearby.
>> The belonging to a street can alternatively be represented by a
>> associatedStreet relation."
>>
>> He's actually marking private driveways and private roads with the
>> addressing schema.
>>
>
> that same page also states "To provide address information for buildings
> and facilities"
> So IMHO it should not go on ways (including service roads).
>
> I wonder which application uses addr:street on ways.
>
> While it is not needed, it doesn't harm. So it wouldn't be my first
> priority to fix, when I will remove one when I encounter it. As André
> pointed out, there are more serious errors (e.g. bad routing).
>
> regards
>
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