Re: [Tagging] address property of features

2017-03-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2017-03-18 17:56 GMT+01:00 Tristan Anderson : > Let's say a store has three entrances: 2, 4 and 6 Main Street. The store > uses it's main entrance, 4 Main Street, as it's address. Are you > suggesting using the addr:housenumber key four times: a node at each >

Re: [Tagging] address property of features

2017-03-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 19 Mar 2017, at 07:39, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > > This goes back to the long unresolved question on whether addresses are: (1) > features in themselves (so each address must be uniquely represented in OSM > and never duplicated), or (2) simply

Re: [Tagging] address property of features

2017-03-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 12:56 AM, Tristan Anderson < andersontris...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Either tag the store or the entrance, not both. > This goes back to the long unresolved question on whether addresses are: (1) features in themselves (so each address must be uniquely represented in OSM

Re: [Tagging] address property of features

2017-03-18 Thread Colin Smale
A tip from CRM systems: addresses have a specific role, just like we have multiple phone numbers: one for work, one for home, mobile, fax etc., we can also have multiple addresses. One may be the legal address of a company, one for postal deliveries (possibly non-geographic such as a Postbox

Re: [Tagging] address property of features

2017-03-18 Thread Janko Mihelić
Imagine a data consumer trying to find out the address of all those stores. Not only is it hard because you have to find surrounding areas and extract the address, but in your case it's impossible because you can't know for sure which entrance it took its address from. What's your solution to

Re: [Tagging] address property of features

2017-03-18 Thread Tristan Anderson
agged 4 Main Street twice, even though there is only one 4 Main Street. Either tag the store or the entrance, not both. From: Janko Mihelić <jan...@gmail.com> Sent: March 18, 2017 12:28 PM To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools Subject: Re: [Taggi

Re: [Tagging] address property of features

2017-03-18 Thread Janko Mihelić
I agree. Duplicating addresses on features is not a problem, but a feature. Janko ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] address property of features

2017-03-18 Thread André Pirard
On 2017-03-18 14:16, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > if there's a whole building or area with one housenumber you can put > the feature inside and it can inherit the address from the area, There are two ways to tag multiple features (or a single one) of the same building: * name space tags, but

[Tagging] address property of features

2017-03-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
if there's a whole building or area with one housenumber you can put the feature inside and it can inherit the address from the area, it seems like a good way to map, but in many cases this is not possible. In Italy in general, every entrance and even some potential entrances get their own