On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 7:22 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16. Aug 2018, at 00:14, Graeme Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: >> E.g. km 15,350 is not an addr:housenumber either (used a lot in rural areas >> around here) > >> Why wouldn't that be a housenumber? > > because it is an approximate distance, not a number. Places with addresses > like this usually don’t have a housenumber.
In many communities in the US, all housenumbers are distance based, often from a central chaining origin. They are indeed house numbers when appearing on a postal address: "13430 North Black Canyon Highway, Phoenix, Arizona" is 13.43 miles (yeah, I know, miles, benighted Americans) north of Washington Street, or "4750 W. Peoria Avenue" is 4.75 miles west of Central Avenue. The system goes out a long way, some of the numbers are in the 40- and 50-thousands. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
