On 16-08-11 15:04:20, Martin Koppenhoefer, wrote 0.7K characters saying:
I agree it isn't clean and it does clutter up the database to have
multiple addressess containing the same information on nodes within a
building but that is what we currently have.
it is a very stable way of doing things though, and a good way to operate
when you work incrementally (as osm generally does). Even if the nodes
are not perfectly positioned you get reliable addressing information for
POIs this way. I am not convinced that simplifying these structures by
moving address information from POIs to a container (like a plot or a
building) is is beneficial for the project.
Duplicates are in general always bad and not neat. That's a thing that
will/could bite us in the ass in the future (a city changing its name, its
postcode, or merging a postcode with another city). An address by area can
simply avoid easy spelling mistakes.
In Canada Postal Codes are not open data so the only way they can be used
is on an individual address.
I don't understand. What does it make that they are not open data ? One
could know that all of their village has the same postcode, so they could
simply add a addr:postcode=xxx to their village boundary ?
Cheers,
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