[OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

[Sarah Hoffmann]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 02:16:02AM -0700, Mark Wagner wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 22:58:07 +0200
> 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.
> > 
> 
> As a rather extreme first-world example, the address of
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/132723167 is:
> 
> name=Grand Canyon North Rim Lodge
> addr:city=North Rim
> addr:state=AZ
> 
> Not only does the building not have a house number, house name, or
> other house identifier, the road it's on isn't named either.  When
> there's only one road in town, and that road only has one building that
> receives mail, you don't need much in the way of identifiers.

This is a rather common case of addressing. Please add addr:place=North Rim to
indicate that this is a street-less address and what is the point of
reference for the address.

Kind regards

Sarah