[OSM-talk] Czech address system

[Jochen Topf]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:53:18PM +0100, Radomír Černoch wrote:
> There is one associated question: What key shall be used for this
> system? Current map uses 'addr:alternatenumber' just like wiki
> suggests on a page titled 'Key:addr'. However before discovering the
> wiki article, there was a proposal to rename this tag to 'addr:ref'
> with considerable arguments:

Bot addr:ref and addr:alternatenumber have the problem that they are not
really descriptive. There is a tendency in OSM to use keys like "ref",
"class", "id", "type", ... which don't really tell you much. Chances are
that somebody on the other side of the world uses the same tags for
something completely different. In my opinion ref is overused already.
Sure its some kind of "reference id", but what kind? "alternatenumber"
is also problematic for the same reason. Alternate to what? Its not
really an alternate number, its a number in a completely different
system. I would expect an "alternate number" to refer to a different way
of writing the same number, maybe in roman numerals or whatever.

If "Konskriptionsnummer" is the official name of this thing, why not use
that (or whatever the local/english equivalent is)? 

Jochen
-- 
Jochen Topf  jochen at remote.org  http://www.remote.org/jochen/  +49-721-388298