Proposal talk:House numbers/Bremen Schema

Remarks

It's true that the address data should be defined only once, followinig this principle : One feature, one OSM element. Your proposal is mainly compensating your point :

"there is nothing implemented which applies the housenumber from the building-way."

This is something that has to be solved by software. Any GIS application (or postGIS db) is able to find the surrounding building-way and therefore, the address. You cannot ask the contributors to repeate the same information millions times in the db just because this tool does not exist yet. Push the software devs to make this feature available instead of proposing a duplicate tag just to avoid rendering issues. --Pieren (talk) 11:49, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

1 and 3 would be solved - but not the other ones and 3a.--Cracklinrain (talk) 12:43, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

I always add the full addr:* address to each POI / shop inside a building because a) this method generates redundant data but is resistant against broken relations, b) it cannot be expected that all software is able to understand that all nodes of a building have the same address, c) single buildings exist that have 2 addresses (even 2 streets), d) it takes pretty no extra time to do so, e) it is easy to verify correctness of all address nodes / POIs with such data format in a street.--Markus59 (talk) 07:42, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

if you add an address to a poi, the address is an attribute, not a feature, therefore you can have many references to the same address. If you see the address as a feature, it must cover the complete area it is referring to, not just a node (at least for German addresses it is like this). A housenumber 12-16 are actually several parcels which form together one site, with individual numbers like 12,13,14,15,16 or 12,14,16 or 12a,12b,12c,14,16 (you cannot see from the address alone which are those individual numbers). I find the tag name contact:housenumber etc. misleading for something that actually IS itself at this address. --Dieterdreist (talk) 21:00, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for trying to solve the problem of adding an address to a POI

This is needed thanks for your time, I hope this becomes accepted one day. (Making this comment is just a tiny tiny contribution to revive it) --Tuxayo (talk) 13:36, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Not needed

I do not believe addr data should be tagged only once for each address, it is logical that addresses as features (assigned addresses) should be unique, but it is a common case in most places that several things have the same address properties. In OpenStreetMap, addr:* tags can be both, representing a feature (Address) or a property (Address of something). One feature one element is not a problem and is still followed, also with the address properties repeated on all the objects with the same address. —Dieterdreist (talk) 11:41, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Contradicting meanings

There are also other interpretations of the contact:street and similar tags, which are used when the thing is located at a different address and the contact address is where it can receive mail. —Dieterdreist (talk) 11:43, 11 November 2022 (UTC)