2012/12/4 Pieren <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Friedrich Volkmann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The only use of separate address nodes by now is that they make Mapnik >> display a house number. But speaking of Mapnik... if there are 5 POIs in a >> house, and Mapnik has no signature for those POIs, it displays the house >> number for each POI instead, resulting in 5x the same number. That makes >> addresses on nodes problematic for Mapnik too. > > One principle I like in OSM is "one feature, one OSM element": > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element > > A single address should be tagged only once. If you have several POI's > with the same address, tag the address on its own node. The node does > not have to be be "floating" but can be attached on the building way, > either on the building entrance or where post boxes are physically (or > vitually). Then it is to the software consumers to find the nearest > node address when they search information about a specific POI.
I agree with you. If a building has more than one address I usually put it on the relevant entrance. If there is no relevant entrance I put it on a node on the building way, where the plate is. Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
