[OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

[Nelson A. de Oliveira]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:18 PM, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
> Ok, if the address is essentially "The airport on X-street" or "The
> government office on Y-street" then i think the type of feature is part
> of the address and this needs to be indicated in tagging somehow.  And
> And I don't think the fact that there is no house number needs to be
> specifically indicated then.

Take a look at https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/BiJ please
(probably there are much more variants that people use than the ones
from this query)

All these objects have some kind of "no housenumber" abbreviation at
addr:housenumber (which is exactly the same problem of using name="No
name").

The addresses here (in real life) all always explicit in saying that
the place don't have a housenumber.

We could simply remove all these values, but people will reinsert them
and we will create doubt in our data (if the place doesn't really have
a housenumber or if it's only missing in the data).

If we choose to create/define some standardized way to say that a
place doesn't really have a housenumber (in the same way we already do
with noname), we could start fixing all these wrong addr:housenumber,
say to people "please, use this to represent a place without a
housenumber", do some kind of QA, etc.