[OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 16:02 Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 August 2018, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> > > Specifying addr:street on a building that does not have an address
> > > is either pointless or non-verifiable.
> >
> > But this happens here :-)
> > Sometimes they are big buildings/areas (which occupies a whole city
> > block, for example), with addr:street, addr:postcode but no
> > addr:housenumber
>
> You probably have to give a real world example since i have no idea if
> you want to say you have a building with a unique address consisting of
> addr:street and addr:postcode (could be if there is only one building
> at this street or with this postcode) or if you want to defend
> pointless or non-verifiable tagging of addr:street for buildings
> without a unique address.
>

Midway Public Schools
3rd Street
Council Hill, Oklahoma

Though I'd call "Midway Public Schools" a housename since there are
numbered addresses on 3rd, but the schools aren't.  Been there a few times
for service calls, know this example firsthand.

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