[OSM-talk] New Debugging-Tool: OSM-Inspector

[Matt Amos]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 05:34:20PM +0000, Matt Amos wrote:
>> it seems to be flagging addresses tagged with the associatedStreet
>> relation method of the Karlsruhe schema with "cannot find street"
>> errors. is this is because street finding via relations isn't
>> implemented yet?
>
> Yes, thats not implemented. There are only 443 of those relations in the
> whole of Europe (vs. nearly 320.000 addr:street tags on nodes). So I
> guess that method looks more or less dead to me. Any opinions on that?

i was using it because it is documented on the karlsruhe schema wiki
page and it seems cleaner than looking up on street name. the relation
explicitly and uniquely binds the houses to the street, whereas name
lookup binds implicitly. that means its more prone to spelling
mistakes etc...

>> finally, a request: could you please add postal_code
>> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:postal_code) as a synonym
>> for addr:postcode, so i can debug these areas in the UK? it'd be a
>> pain to go back and change them all :-)
>
> I hesitate to support two tags for the same thing. And there are many
> more addr:postcode tags than postal_code. Has this been discussed
> somewhere already?

as far as i can tell, the postal_code tag has been used for about a
year and a half longer than addr:postcode, although i can't find much
mention of it on the mailing list / wiki besides these:

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2006-March/000823.html
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2007-March/001931.html
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Key:place&oldid=5338

it probably should be discussed. i guess the alternatives are are:

1) we choose one and start highlighting the other in openstreetbugs / maplint
2) we choose to use both, and tools must be adapted.

either way, we should probably make sure it is definitively documented
on the wiki this time!

cheers,

matt