[OSM-talk] house numbers revisited

[Jonathan Bennett]

Frederik Ramm 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.

I think this scheme works best, because we can carry it forward to 
houses being areas tagged 'building=...' -- there's an issue with 
semi-detached and terraced houses to be worked out (1 way per building 
vs. 1 way per residence), but that's probably some way off needing to be 
solved.

-- 
Jonathan