On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 02:16:02AM -0700, Mark Wagner wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 22:58:07 +0200 > Christoph Hormann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 22 August 2018, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > > > > Specifying addr:street on a building that does not have an address > > > > is either pointless or non-verifiable. > > > > > > But this happens here :-) > > > Sometimes they are big buildings/areas (which occupies a whole city > > > block, for example), with addr:street, addr:postcode but no > > > addr:housenumber > > > > You probably have to give a real world example since i have no idea > > if you want to say you have a building with a unique address > > consisting of addr:street and addr:postcode (could be if there is > > only one building at this street or with this postcode) or if you > > want to defend pointless or non-verifiable tagging of addr:street for > > buildings without a unique address. > > > > 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.
This is a rather common case of addressing. Please add addr:place=North Rim to indicate that this is a street-less address and what is the point of reference for the address. Kind regards Sarah _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
