[Talk-us-massachusetts] Stacked address points from MassGIS

[Yury Yatsynovich]

Greetings!
I have a question on combining stacked MassGIS address points (those with
EXACTLY the same coordinates) for importing to OSM.

Namely, here is an example of 4 MassGIS addresses in Malden that have
exactly the same coordinates:
93 Home Street
95 Home Street
93-95 Home Street
95 Home Street, Unit B

How would you combine them?
Aggregate into two separate points (with and without units) which will
still be stacked after the import:
-- "addr:street=Home Street, addr:housenumber=93;95;93-95"
-- "addr:street=Home Street, addr:housenumber=95, addr:unit=B"

Or combine all 4 of them into one point? Yet, here I have a problem of
thinking about combining addresses with and without units.
Something like
"addr:street=Home Street, addr:housenumber=93;95;93-95, addr:unit=B"
doesn't seem accurate -- there are addresses in this point without unit B...

On the other hand, something like "addr:street=Home Street,
addr:housenumber=93;95;93-95, addr:unit=B;", although, indicating that some
of these addresses do not have units (can it actually be tagged with an
empty string after ";" in addr:unit??), doesn't give a good idea which are
these addresses.

Or would you prefer importing stacked points without combing them at all?

Any thoughts on this?
-- 
Yury Yatsynovich
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