[OSM-talk] house numbers revisited

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

>  A completely different (and quite OSM-like!) option is dropping all this
>  complex logic, left-right-blah tagging, number schemes, relations and
>  all, and just put simple nodes: "This is B street number 25". This
>  brings redundancy, typos, and all - but we're used to that. It would be
>  *extremely* easy to edit, and renderers or routers would have to do a
>  little bit of processing to work with the data. Not too hard probably.

Another more osm-like (i.e. less frigging namespaces)

* This node, set away from the road slightly, is houseno = 25
* This node is houseno = 37
* This way joining those two is numbering = odd
* This relation combines the street, the number-lines on both sides,
and house 44 which, for some reason, is round the corner.

Has the advantage that the number lines are not affected by the roads
changing direction (or even the direction of the number line) and
someone can add in a node(s) to the middle of the line and give it a
precise house number.

Just a suggestion; probably something glaringly obviously wrong.

Cheers,
Andy