I support using the addrN:* tagging proposed here in the specific
situation where a single residence or business has multiple addresses.
Note I am not referring to a building with multiple occupiers, but a
single addressee with more than one address. In England I have never
encountered this situation for residential addresses, but have done so
very occasionally for shops and other businesses.
Here is an example:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/290380382
In cases like this there is probably only one 'official' address, but if
the available sources are contradictory it is desirable to record both.
This situation sometimes arises when a business decides their official
address is confusing and they then invent another one which they think
is clearer for people trying to find them.
I think it's rarely a good idea to add the same feature twice, which is
the obvious alternative for tagging this. I dislike the idea of using
relations for multiple addresses because it's over-complicating things:
a lot of mappers find relations confusing.
I do not support using addrN:* tagging for the common case of multiple
occupancy buildings. It simply does not work in a lot of cases, because
different businesses in one building also require different names and
other tags and I don't think we want to start using name:2=* office:2=*,
and so on, to distinguish them.
Cheers,
Will
On 15/01/2015 01:46, Friedrich Volkmann wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/addrN
I once made a proposal for multiple addresses, which I think was fairly
eleborate, but too complex. This is now a simplified version, and hopefully
more acceptable. This tagging scheme is already in use (e.g. > 7000
occurances of addr2:housenumber), but unfortunately limited to one country
or so, due to a lack of international communication and documentation. I
hope that this proposal will get it a wider audience, and that application
support will subsequently improve.
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