[OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

[Nelson A. de Oliveira]

What is the best way to represent places which have no housenumber?

It's the same problem described in
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Addresses#Missing_housenumbers
(and this same doubt arose recently in the Brazilian community)

By leaving the housenumber empty we don't know in fact if the place
doesn't have a housenumber or if it wasn't just filled.

Similarly to using name="No name" to represent a street with no name,
using any kind of value in addr:housenumber would be wrong and cause
the same kind of problems.

How could we solve this, please?