[OSM-talk] combining nodes with ways

[john whelan]

In Canada Postal Codes are not open data so the only way they can be used
is on an individual address.  City is not repeated in the addreses nor is
province or country for the most part but with crowd sourcing mappers each
tends to go their own way.

I agree it isn't clean and it does clutter up the database to have multiple
addressess containing the same information on nodes within a building but
that is what we currently have.

Cheerio John

On 11 August 2016 at 08:22, Frank Villaro-Dixon <frank at villaro-dixon.eu>
wrote:

> On 16-08-11 07:42:59, john whelan, wrote 4.7K characters saying:
>
>> Not quite what I'm looking for.  The building is defined as an area but
>> often has no address information, within the building are a number of
>> nodes
>> one or more of which has address information which is valid for the entire
>> building.  So what I'm interested in is way to either move the tags to the
>> building way or copy the tags to the building way or area.  The entire
>> City
>> has some 300,000 buildings so the volume to be done is fairly high and I'd
>> like to do it in a fairly manual way using JOSM.
>>
>> Thanks John
>>
>
> Innocently, I find this approach very 'first normal form'[1] but not
> really 'third normal form'[2].
>
> To me, its not very clean/neat to duplicate a bunch of common attributes
> (city, postal code, country) in nodes/ways if these can be retrieved via
> other means (city's area for example).
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_normal_form
> [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_normal_form
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