You could also put the address information on the building and place the two POIs inside it. At least Nominatim supports this. There is no reason why another program cannot find the surrounding building. Of course this is not as easy as taking it from the node. Since this is a rather recent feature, I've always doubled the address information.
regards m On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:19 AM, Hans De Kryger <hans.dekryge...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hopefully this gets enough attention on the tagging list. Thought about > posting this to talk U.S but changed my mind. > > Anyways to my problem. One of my passions to map in osm is gas stations. > I've done hundreds since I've joined and now have fully come to realize a > persistent problem that occurs frequently. The duplicate address tagging of > a gas station and convenience store run by the same company. For example, > say i just added a circle k gas station down the street from me to osm. But > the gas station also has a convenience store. Well i have to copy over all > the address info from one poi to the other since leaving the address Field > blank makes no sense if someone would like to get there using a navigation > app. I have thought about it a lot. And i go back and forth thinking both > places should be tagged. Still a part of me thinks it makes no sense to > have a address for a gas station tagged twice. One reason we cant > completely combine the gas station and convenience store tag is some gas > stations have the convenience store run by separate companies. As is the > case with a circle k down the street from me. The convenience store is a > circle k but the gas station is a shell. It would be nice to have a > separate tag that combined the gas and convenience store shop together. I > just want to make clear i don't want to get rid of the existing tags i just > want to add one. > > *Regards,* > > *Hans* > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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