On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Steven Johnson wrote:
Well, hang on a tic... I don't know if you can really say, "...no one will manually enter in all those parts, especially since the distinction would be meaningless to most people." Just like breaking out the prefix, I think breaking out the address into a finer granularity makes the address more useful all around. And I think there's plenty of latent demand for improving address data in OSM.
First off, by "no one" I meant "most people", sorry I tend to be a bit too strong in my word choice.
Well it will be useful. The question is if it worth the trouble.
I whole-heartedly agree with you though that a large part of the address standard is beyond most OSM needs. So what parts of the standard can we take and which can we ignore (for now)? Some months ago I did a quick cross-walk of the address standard and the Karlsruhe schema. I'll try to dig it out and update it.
For now I just want to break out the prefix (and maybe the suffix) from the displayed name on the map which I hope we can agree on. It will not be incompatible with a future move to a full breakout of the components of a street name.
Of course others are welcome to debate what parts of the standard should be used, I personally don't want to deal with them in my proposal.
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