2015-01-15 23:48 GMT+00:00 Friedrich Volkmann <b...@volki.at>: > On 15.01.2015 13:10, Dan S wrote: >> The addrN scheme is really quite awkward > > Can you explain why you find it awkward? > > It seems to me that the displeasure felt with the addrN scheme is caused by > a phenomenon called transference. Multiple addresses in the real world are > awkward, but they do exist and we cannot change that annoying fact. > Therefore, the negative feeling transfers to the tagging scheme that > represents the awkward reality. The awkward reality cannot be defeatet, but > its representation can.
I would give a different reason: I find it awkward because OSM's data model, with a flat list of key=value tags, doesn't fit well to this particular reality. A lovely data model would be hierarchical, where our object could have an "addr" key containing two values, and those two values would themselves each be a dictionary of "housenumber=Y street=X ..." etc. That's why I find it awkward - but as I said, in my opinion there isn't a non-awkward way to solve this! Dan _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
