[Talk-us] Announcement: Address Improvement project

[Mike N]

On 10/4/2011 9:04 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:
> The purpose of this project is to improve the tagging and better reflect
> local addressing practice, particularly in areas where the Karlsruhe
> schema does not fit local practice. This includes Japan and United
> States, but likely other regions as well. We've made attempts to
> consolidate a number of addressing discussions and proposals from around
> the OSM wiki.

  I must confess that I haven't seen cases in the US that aren't already 
covered by Karlsruhe.   The only thing I can think of would be multi 
floors and building interiors - which aren't generally mapped in OSM 
anyway. If the problem is that something isn't documented clearly, that 
can be addressed.   One thing I noticed is that the page links to the 
proposed Karlsruhe schema rather than the 'approved' page:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr

  I started to look at the US ... Address Data Standard and admit that 
I'd be blown away at trying to at trying to add any of it to typical OSM 
address data collection process.   I'd probably just end up entering 
everything with FIXME's and let someone else fix it.  <g>