I think he means that most houses are now put in individually (often on the 
buildings) rather than using the interpolation method of storing house numbers 
in the OSM data. The nearest street which has the same name as the addr:street 
is the line that you would be looking for.

Shaun

On 24 Jun 2014, at 15:20, Marcus Wolschon <mar...@wolschon.biz> wrote:

> 
> Why would interpolation no longer be supported?
> Supported by whom?
> 
> 
> Am 24.06.14 15:53, schrieb Siegfried Jetzke:
>> Dear members,
>> 
>> I'm new to this list and don't know wether my question already has been 
>> discussed several times or not. If yes, please send me some link to the 
>> place where I can find it.
>> 
>> I do have an academic and commercial background and I'm working on route 
>> planing. In former projects I used commercial data, e.g. those from 
>> teleatlas. 
>> For a new project that started some time ago, I want to see wether we can 
>> use OSM. 
>> My question is the following: I get an address, like 38159 Vechelde, 
>> Brinkstr. 4b. I consider each street as a list of road elements and each 
>> road element as a pair of two edges, one left and one right edge.
>> 
>> To use this address within my application I do need to know the edge to 
>> which this address belongs. It would be "nice" to know approximately the 
>> distance of this address from one of the nodes, defining the edge. I'm not 
>> interested in the coordinates of the address.
>> 
>> I found that "interpolation" gives exactly the information I need but that 
>> this will not longer be supported.
>> 
>> Can anyone give me some hint how to find the edge belonging to one address?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance 
>> 
>> Siegfried
>> -- 
>> Prof. Dr. Siegfried Jetzke
>> 
>> goodSync GmbH
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>> Brinkstraße 4b 
>> 38159 Vechelde
>> 
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