[OSM-talk] Addresses

[Steve Doerr]

On 01/03/2011 00:31, John-Michael Wiley wrote:
>
> Unfortunately the data is coming to me from a tool I do not control. I 
> simply will be importing the data and allowing someone to associate 
> the data provided with areas and nodes on the map. Most of the data 
> will be for the US, but there is no guarantee that the addresses are 
> correctly formatted which is why I am worried about doing something 
> simple like assuming the house number is always first and is even 
> always present.
>
> Seems to me like the best thing to do would be to skip the street 
> address fields and simply use the ones which have a 1-1 mapping (city, 
> country, state/province, postal code, phone). Leave the address for 
> someone else.
>

It might be better to load the information in a custom tag (addr:line1 
perhaps?) so that the information is there for other mappers to reformat 
into addr:housenumber and addr:street at a later date.

-- 
Steve
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