[OSM-talk] Adding Addresses to OSM

[Andy Robinson]

This is one of these fundamental aspects of a fully fledges street index for
a fully fledged street map, ie being able to turn a full address into a
location.

Personally I would prefer not to see the map data delivered to editors
cluttered with extraneous nodes for every address. Clearly the db needs to
hold nodes with address data though.

What are others thoughts on this?

Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>Is there a standardized way to add street addresses to OSM?  It would seem
>that the easiest way would be to add a node to the way that the address is
>on.  Then add an "address" key for the address number and some sort of key
>to say which side of the road the address is on.  Or if there were a
>database of addresses and their lat/lon that could be important instead.
>
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