[OSM-talk] Multiple addresses/use for one building

[Marcus Wolschon]

On 3/14/09, paul youlten <paul.youlten at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would have thought that "1 to 500" would be easier to parse into
> machine readable digits than "120b"
>
> or does "120b" == "120.2"?

House-numbers are not at all times numbers. 120b is the string "120b".
Parsing into numbers is only required for the documented interpolation
of long streets and that only allowes some cases that can be implemented
in a sensible number of man-hours.

It does not make sense to try to parse that into real numbers as
you suggested. There are cases out there strange enough for this
to bot work in a generic way.
Also it would not be possible to generate the original "housenumber"
from such a number.

Marcus