On 18.11.2012 21:16, Steven Johnson wrote: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/UnitedStates
I've looked through your slides and the proposal, but I do not yet understand why this solution is necessary. One of your examples is "6345 W. Euclid AV", which you would tag as addr:housenumber = 6345 addr:dir_pre = W addr:streetname = Euclid addr:street_type = Avenue To me, the straightforward solution would be: addr:housenumber = 6345 addr:street = W. Euclid Avenue (maybe without the abbreviation) You argue that addressing in the US is very different from the rest of the world, and to some extent that's true. However, I'm not convinced it's different enough to warrant fundamentally different tagging. For example, words for street types do regularly appear in addresses outside the US - in German we have words such as "Straße" (street), "Weg" (~ way) or "Gasse" (~ alley). And it's common practice to put that "street type" in both the name and the addr:street values along with the more unique part of the name. This makes it reasonably easy for a renderer that doesn't know anything about German street names to handle the tag, but would still allow a more sophisticated renderer or search engine to break the values apart and abbreviate them etc. where appropriate. So which particular difference is it that makes the existing keys not work for the US? Tobias _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
