On 4/30/2014 11:59 PM, David K wrote:
If a street has name=Elm Street but a house has addr:street=S Elm St, I consider this perfectly valid (in a city that in fact has only one Elm Street). (Sidebar: I use USPS abbreviations in addr:street values because that's how USPS prefers mail to be addressed.) To have a program present this as an "error" will could editors to change the presentation of good data against established local conventions.
I'm not at all clear about OSM conventions in representing USPS mailing addresses VS city boundary of residence. I've never attempted to handle OSM notes of the sort "I'm in X city, but CraigsList shows me in Y city".
Most new OSM contributors would enter the "S Elm St" form, but this is different from the established convention of creating road names without abbreviations.
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