On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 4:11 PM Simon Poole <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] addr tags are for postal addresses I don't think using them as a > level name/ref makes very much sense outside of that very narrow > application. >
I rechecked the two main OSM Wiki pages[1][2] on addr:*=* tags and addresses in general and there is no indication there that such tags are only intended to encode postal addresses (aside from the specific addr:postcode=* tag). Personally, I use addr:*=* tags in any scenario where addresses can be used, such as in contact/location addresses which is used when the general public (and not just the postman/mailman) wants to go to an office, shop, or an establishment. For example, the Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong lists their location where they can be reached[3] as "46-47/F, One Exchange Square, 8 Connaught Place, Central, Hong Kong". I could then encode this as: addr:floor=46-47/F addr:housename=One Exchange Square addr:housenumber=8 addr:street=Connaught Place addr:place=Central (tag probably unnecessary if Central is already a boundary) addr:city=Hong Kong (probably unnecessary since HK already has a boundary) As for level=*, I don't know whether this building skips any floor numbers (4th? 14th? 24th? etc.) so I would hold off on tagging level=* until I get to see their elevator buttons. [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses [3] https://www.hk.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/opentime.html ~Eugene
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