On 22.07.2013 04:21, Clifford Snow wrote:

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Friedrich Volkmann <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    When a shop changes, it is true that the address is more permanent. Just
    like the coordinates are more permanent. But we won't necessarily keep
    them in OSM if there's no shop anymore. As this is unusual, let's habe a
    look at doctors instead. A doctor may have his practice in the 3rd
    floor, door number 27. When he retires, he (or someone else) may use
    that apartment for living. It's no POI anymore. It just becomes an
    ordinary flat like the 50 other flats in the house. Keeping the naked
    address with floor and door number would be completely useless. Of
    course, we wish to keep the address of the whole house, but there we are
    at attibutes again.


I'm in favor of keeping addresses on vacant lots. Vacant lots often get
rebuilt.

I agree that addresses of vacant lots (parcels) should be retained in OSM. This is different to my example above.

In the US cities I've lived, the address remains the same. Of
course there are exceptions, for example, if the original building was on a
corner lot and the new building had it main entranced moved to the other
street, the building would most likely get a new number.

Well, that's a case for multipe addresses, see my proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/Multiple_addresses

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Friedrich K. Volkmann       http://www.volki.at/
Adr.: Davidgasse 76-80/14/10, 1100 Wien, Austria

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