[Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

[Greg Morgan]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> On 2/4/2015 11:25 PM, Greg Morgan wrote:
>>
>>   addr:housenumber contains both the number
>> and the building letter in the same field.  The map is useful because
>> you can find the building. How have other people tried to handle these
>> situations?
>
>
> I haven't tried in any meaningful way.  It's too early to guess how an
> address matching utility might work.   Until now I have used both
>
>  addr:housenumber=724D
>
> and
>  addr:housenumber=724 + addr:unit=D
>
>  depending on whether the address specified by the owner's web site included
> the letter.   More recently, I've gravitated towards separating the
> addr:unit even if the owner specified it as one word, but I'm not sure it's
> the most useful.   The addr:housenumber doesn't render anyway if the
> building has also been tagged as another POI that renders.


I've solved this problem by putting the address on the building.  If
the building also has a POI tag such as amenity=fuel, I move this tag
to a new POI node.  I place the POI node so that both the
addr:housenumber render along with the POI information.  Addresses and
buildings don't change as much as how  busiensses can come and go.