On 23/08/18 10:16, Mark Wagner wrote:
As a rather extreme first-world example, the address of
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/132723167  is:

name=Grand Canyon North Rim Lodge
addr:city=North Rim
addr:state=AZ

Not only does the building not have a house number, house name, or
other house identifier, the road it's on isn't named either.  When
there's only one road in town, and that road only has one building that
receives mail, you don't need much in the way of identifiers.

But I see nothing wrong with that. MANY places the name is also the building name ...

I don't think anybody is saying there HAS to be a building number and if they are then THAT is the error. Many rural buildings simply have a name which in the case of the UK gets listed in the PAF file and I would simply expect 'Grand Canyon North Rim Lodge' to be the address if USPS had a similar postal address listing?

I find the practice of adding ANY tag that does not enhance the data as pointless. There is no need to TAG that there is no number ... you just don't add the tag ... just as the example here ...

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