Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-02-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-02-25 20:31 GMT+01:00 Swen Wacker swen.wac...@gmail.com: 2015-02-25 15:57 GMT+01:00 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: thank you for these references. I have noticed that all of them reference the BauGB §126, which seems to confirm that this is the legal basis for the

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-02-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-01-23 8:55 GMT+01:00 Swen Wacker swen.wac...@gmail.com: 2015-01-22 19:44 GMT+01:00 fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com: In Germany the address always belongs to the plot and not to the building and they are assigned in advance. This is not correct. The decision is up to the local

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-02-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-02-25 15:09 GMT+01:00 Swen Wacker swen.wac...@gmail.com: I have not yet found any text that doesn't state that the plot is the main unit for numbering http://www.rosenheim.de/uploads/media/631f.pdf http://www.bad-doberan.de/uploads/media/Hausnummernsatzung.pdf

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-02-25 Thread Swen Wacker
2015-02-25 15:57 GMT+01:00 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: thank you for these references. I have noticed that all of them reference the BauGB §126, which seems to confirm that this is the legal basis for the numbering Are you kidding me? :-) 1. Neither

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-22 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 21.01.2015 08:28, Markus Lindholm wrote: Before we get carried away by a zillion relations I think we have to answer the questions as to what purpose do we want to explicitly associate an address with a POI or a building. Is it so that the data consumer can find her way to a POI? That's

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-22 Thread Dmitry Kiselev
Hi Friedrich. I can't say for whole World, as for Russia we have plots of lands having addresses without buildings. They are not always dedicated to be build up with something. There is three ways, (maybe more, but i don't know for sure): 1. Large landuses as landuse=industrial may have their

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-22 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 22.01.2015 04:02, John F. Eldredge wrote: If you have a strictly delimited plot of land, with no house currently built upon it, but which is intended for later construction, does it have a house number? Or is the address only assigned once a building is built? When it is already intended

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-22 Thread fly
Am 22.01.2015 um 04:02 schrieb John F. Eldredge: If you have a strictly delimited plot of land, with no house currently built upon it, but which is intended for later construction, does it have a house number? Or is the address only assigned once a building is built? In Germany the address

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-20 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 19.01.2015 12:37, Markus Lindholm wrote: Treating addresses as attributes might be fast and convenient but that kind of scheme becomes incoherent as there is no one-to-one relationship between addresses and other features. E.g. - There are MULTIPLE POIs that all relate to ONE address -

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-20 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 19.01.2015 12:47, Andrew Shadura wrote: It doesn't actually matter if you agree or not, because it doesn't change the fact that buildings in CZ and SK don't have multiple addresses. I cannot judge this. If this is a fact, addr2 is not needed or even plain wrong for conscription numbers in CZ

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
On 19 January 2015 at 11:08, Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at wrote: That's wrong, as I've already explained in another message. When you write a letter to an address in Austria using a conscription number, you MUST omit the street name. Otherwise the letter will be returned as undeliverable.

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-19 Thread Dmitry Kiselev
Andrew, anyway they are mapped in osm as addresses (ok special kind of addresses), and used in the way addresses usually used. Addresses are still distinct as they was There is only one building for Praha, 606 and only one building for Praha, Staroměstské náměstí, 11 Same story for Tallin:

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-19 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 19.01.2015 10:41, Andrew Shadura wrote: On 19 January 2015 at 11:08, Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at wrote: That's wrong, as I've already explained in another message. When you write a letter to an address in Austria using a conscription number, you MUST omit the street name. Otherwise the

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-19 Thread Dmitry Kiselev
In my country, both numbers are used concurrently and together with street name Such thing, that you use conscription numbers and street numbers all together in a same time doesn't make conscription numbers not an address You've said: Praha, 606 might be not unique inside whole Praha

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-19 Thread Ineiev
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:56:01AM +0300, Dmitry Kiselev wrote: addr:city=ukrainian city name addr:street=ukrainian street name addr:housenumber=123 Is enough, all kind of translations might be taken from matched street/city as good as any kind of old_names or alt_names Good point.

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-19 Thread Dmitry Kiselev
No, it's not two addresses, it's just a single one. It's just a particular feature of it that you can omit a part of it (either of the building numbers or sometimes the street name if you have the conscription number). I've got your point, but I cant agree with you that it's not a multiple

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
On 19 January 2015 at 11:33, Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at wrote: I have been living in this country for all my life, and I worked at a post office for some months. So you can safely believe my statements. But all you mind to say it that it's all untrue. Well, maybe you also say that the

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-19 Thread Dmitry Kiselev
If you mean osm relation between POI and every address node, such schema will not ever be widely in use. As for relational databases, yep one more SQL relation is an option. And for noSQL data storages there are hundred ways to store such relationships. Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:37:32 +0100 от

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-19 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 19.01.2015 09:57, Andrew Shadura wrote: Dmitry, this isn't true. Conscription number/street number is just a special sort of an address, it's not like two totally separate addresses. Yes, you can use a part of it to address a building (conscription number + optional street + optional

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-19 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 19.01.2015 11:10, Andrew Shadura wrote: If your country has effectively abolished conscription numbers, this is one thing. Another this is how they work in countries where they're used all the time. In my country, both numbers are used concurrently and together with street name, and this

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-19 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 18.01.2015 22:23, Markus Lindholm wrote: I think that comes down to how addresses are viewed, either as a proper feature in their one right or as an attribute to some other feature. Yes, that's the crux. I think addresses are proper features, so a distinct address should be found only

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
No, it's not two addresses, it's just a single one. It's just a particular feature of it that you can omit a part of it (either of the building numbers or sometimes the street name if you have the conscription number). I've got your point, but I cant agree with you that it's not a

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-18 Thread Dmitry Kiselev
So we have 2 millions things in OSM going against OSM modeling tradition: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Aconscriptionnumber It's same story, two addresses for one object. First: hn-street-city Second: hn-city Scheme is different, but principle is the same, two addresses for one

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-18 Thread Ineiev
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:11:23PM +0100, Friedrich Volkmann wrote: On 16.01.2015 05:48, Ineiev wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: you could use polygons (e.g. 2 distinct multipolygons, one for each address), and add a note to inform your fellow

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-18 Thread Dmitry Kiselev
Markus, there is no problems with distinct addresses at all if you treat them as first class citizen in your database. Table address id, scheme, hn, street, quarter, neighbourhood, city, e.t.c Table POI id, name, brand, operator, something, else Table POI_Addr POI (POI.id), addr (address.id)

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-18 Thread fly
Am 17.01.2015 um 23:11 schrieb Friedrich Volkmann: On 16.01.2015 05:48, Ineiev wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: you could use polygons (e.g. 2 distinct multipolygons, one for each address), and add a note to inform your fellow mapping colleagues that

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-18 Thread Jo
Addresses are funny beasts. They may mean something different for the delivery guy, the mailman, the administration, the owner of the building, the cab driver who needs to let out a passenger. Maybe we should also indicate whether we mapped the ground parcel, the building, the doorbell, the

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-18 Thread Markus Lindholm
On 18 January 2015 at 22:11, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-01-18 20:52 GMT+00:00 Markus Lindholm markus.lindh...@gmail.com: On 17 January 2015 at 22:16, Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at wrote: With the addrN schema, we need one object (a node tagged shop=* and addrN:*=*) for a

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-17 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 16.01.2015 11:40, Markus Lindholm wrote: What we don't need is yet another special case mapping scheme like addrN Have you had the time to look at the existing relation of type=provides_feature http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Provides_feature and how you can use it to

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-17 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 16.01.2015 05:48, Ineiev wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: you could use polygons (e.g. 2 distinct multipolygons, one for each address), and add a note to inform your fellow mapping colleagues that the overlap is intended (note is not needed but

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-17 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 16.01.2015 17:04, Serge Wroclawski wrote: There is an addr:city=* key for the city, Is there a building in your dataset that lives in two cities? No. I used a bogus example just to demonstrate the syntax. And here's where we simply say: addr=val1;val2;val3 If you're in North

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-16 Thread Markus Lindholm
On 16 January 2015 at 01:04, Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at wrote: We can discuss its pros and cons, but I think the main message is that multiple addresses are mapped differently all over the world. Every country has its local OSM community which concoct their own tagging rules. The result

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-16 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at wrote: In that scenario, I'd much prefer to see two nodes, each with their address, and each tagged as an entrance. What you prefer certainly depends on your needs. Adresses on entrances are fine for routing, maybe for visual

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-16 Thread Will Phillips
I support using the addrN:* tagging proposed here in the specific situation where a single residence or business has multiple addresses. Note I am not referring to a building with multiple occupiers, but a single addressee with more than one address. In England I have never encountered this

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Serge Wroclawski
The idea, if I understand it, is to allow for some arbitrary number of values for an address. That's an important goal as we increase the number of addresses in OSM. I do have some questions/concerns about this specific proposal. As I examine it, it serves one very specific purpose, which is a

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Florian Schäfer
Hello Friedrich, in Czech Republic they have a similar problem: They have so called conscription numbers, which are unique in the whole city and additionally the normal housenumbers. They use the key addr:streetnumber (675,742× used) for the number unique within the street, addr:conscriptionnumber

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Andrew Shadura
On 15 January 2015 at 17:08, Florian Schäfer flor...@schaeferban.de wrote: Hello Friedrich, in Czech Republic they have a similar problem: They have so called conscription numbers, which are unique in the whole city and additionally the normal housenumbers. They use the key addr:streetnumber

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:10 AM, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking about this solution too. The addrN scheme is really quite awkward so it'd be nice to recommend something like simply having two nodes/multipolygons with exactly the same overlapping geometry. However, this

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 15.01.2015 17:08, Florian Schäfer wrote: in Czech Republic they have a similar problem: They have so called conscription numbers, which are unique in the whole city and additionally the normal housenumbers. They use the key addr:streetnumber (675,742× used) for the number unique within the

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 15.01.2015 12:53, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: you could use polygons (e.g. 2 distinct multipolygons, one for each address), and add a note to inform your fellow mapping colleagues that the overlap is intended (note is not needed but nice). That still separates the feature from its address,

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 15.01.2015 13:10, Dan S wrote: The addrN scheme is really quite awkward Can you explain why you find it awkward? It seems to me that the displeasure felt with the addrN scheme is caused by a phenomenon called transference. Multiple addresses in the real world are awkward, but they do exist

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at wrote: This exact approach is new to me. We can discuss its pros and cons, but I think the main message is that multiple addresses are mapped differently all over the world. Every country has its local OSM community which

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Ineiev
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: you could use polygons (e.g. 2 distinct multipolygons, one for each address), and add a note to inform your fellow mapping colleagues that the overlap is intended (note is not needed but nice). I think this solution has an

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Volker Schmidt
I never heard of alt_addr:*. Where is it documented? I could not find any documentation either. I only found it on taginfo by analogy to alt_name. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Andrew Shadura
On 15 January 2015 at 03:02, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote: The proposal seems to be a good solution to this problem. This particular proposal seems to be a terrible solution to this problem. It requires changes to the software, and the tagging scheme is ugly as hell. At the same time, there's much

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Andreas Labres
On 15.01.15 12:23, Andrew Shadura wrote: This particular proposal seems to be a terrible solution to this problem. It requires changes to the software, and the tagging scheme is ugly as hell. At the same time, there's much simpler and better solution: placing address nodes inside the building

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Janko Mihelić
2015-01-15 12:23 GMT+01:00 Andrew Shadura and...@shadura.me: On 15 January 2015 at 03:02, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote: The proposal seems to be a good solution to this problem. This particular proposal seems to be a terrible solution to this problem. It requires changes to the software, and

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 15.01.2015 08:41, Volker Schmidt wrote: What's the difference to alt_addr:xxx (http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=alt_addr#keys), apart from the fact that addrN is used more frequently? I never heard of alt_addr:*. Where is it documented? It seems that alt_addr:* allows only one

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-01-15 12:43 GMT+01:00 Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com: With addrN:*=* it's clear that the same place has two addresses. If there are two nodes, it seems like there are two places (Two entrances, two apartments, two rooms), each with it's own address. AddrN* is clearly superior in this

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Dan S
2015-01-15 11:53 GMT+00:00 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: 2015-01-15 12:43 GMT+01:00 Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com: With addrN:*=* it's clear that the same place has two addresses. If there are two nodes, it seems like there are two places (Two entrances, two apartments, two

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Markus Lindholm
On 15 January 2015 at 12:43, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-01-15 12:23 GMT+01:00 Andrew Shadura and...@shadura.me: On 15 January 2015 at 03:02, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote: The proposal seems to be a good solution to this problem. This particular proposal seems to be a terrible

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 15.01.2015 17:29, Serge Wroclawski wrote: As I examine it, it serves one very specific purpose, which is a building with two addresses. It can also be applied to other areas (e.g. parcels) or nodes (e.g. shop nodes). Of course, the common crux is the existence of two or more equivalent

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-15 Thread johnw
On Jan 15, 2015, at 8:43 PM, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-01-15 12:23 GMT+01:00 Andrew Shadura and...@shadura.me mailto:and...@shadura.me: On 15 January 2015 at 03:02, johnw jo...@mac.com mailto:jo...@mac.com wrote: The proposal seems to be a good solution to this

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-14 Thread johnw
That’s really interesting. I had no idea there were locations with more than 1 commonly used address. The proposal seems to be a good solution to this problem. Javbw On Jan 15, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at wrote:

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addrN:*

2015-01-14 Thread Volker Schmidt
What's the difference to alt_addr:xxx ( http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=alt_addr#keys), apart from the fact that addrN is used more frequently? Other point: I know that in the UK addresses may have two alternative forms: house name or number. This would also fall in this category and