[OSM-talk] Addresses

[Jochen Topf]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:48:19AM +0000, Steve Doerr wrote:
> 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.

There is a key "addr:full" (see description
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr) for this kind of thing.

Jochen
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