[OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

[Christoph Hormann]

On Wednesday 22 August 2018, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> >
> > What's wrong with noaddress=yes?
> >
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:noaddress
>
> the wiki says noaddress is for places without an address, but the
> places I have in mind do have an address, they have a street,
> postcode, city, just no housenumber.

The single most important property of an address is that it is unique so 
a building or other place than does not have a housenumber, housename 
or another component that makes the address unique does not have an 
address at all even if you can specify a street, city etc. at/in which 
it is located.

Specifying addr:street on a building that does not have an address is 
either pointless or non-verifiable.

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Christoph Hormann
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