On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Randal Hale <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree having a map of an area is a good thing if provided an address. It > just seems like there's been too much worry over tying it to a building or a > front door. I would (this is just me) want to tie it to the street - that > way if the street changes there's some process of having that address node > change.
How would we represent this in OSM? A node on a street with addr:streetnumber? That might work some places, but it's far from ideal. First, it's not going to be as universal as you might want, and we already have a proliferation of address schemes in OSM. I can think of five schemes already, and thatr's without consulting the wiki. A new one would really have to add something that we don't have in any of the existing schemes. You make a point about street names being significant, at least in the US, but... Presumably, you want this for reasons of routing, ie "The closest entrance is the one on the street"- but where I live it doesn't hold true for a lot of addresses. It's very common to find an address on one street but the entrance is on another. Or you might have multiple locations with the same address. My building has 6 separate entrances, all with the same address. - Serge _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
