[Talk-us] Announcement: Address Improvement project

[Toby Murray]

I would put splitting cardinal directions out into their own tag on
the same level as breaking them out on streets. I'm sure some people
do it (in fact I seem to recall a discussion about that a few months
ago?) but I don't plan on making it a priority for myself any time
soon.

The one address component that I have seen missing is suite. We have a
couple of places where businesses share housenumbers and use suite
numbers or letters. I'm sure this is not uncommon. Some places write
it as "123-A" on the outside of the building while others actually say
"123 Suite A" so it's kind of ambiguous whether to just include it in
the housenumber or split it into its own tag. But I've started using
an addr:suite tag where it is listed as a suite. Since there are only
300 uses in the database I'm guessing no tools make use of this tag
yet.

Toby