[OSM-talk] Addressing Question

[andrzej zaborowski]

Hiya,

2009/11/12 Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com>:
> I'm looking at some donated street centerline data that has addressing data
> in the form of "Right/Left From Addr" and "Right/Left To Addr" on each
> street centerline. Is there an accepted way of applying these tags to the
> road ways? It doesn't really make very much sense to create and store a
> separate way just for the addressing information.

The hope is that local mappers there will be slowly improving imported
data until there are separate points for every address I think?  Then
I'd recommend just adding those separate ways and making it easier for
the mappers to build on this data, instead of making it harder for
nearly everyone dealing with OSM data by adding a whole different
addressing scheme.

Cheers