On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 19:40, Jorge Aguirre <jorge.agui...@kaart.com> wrote:
The addresses that utilize ‘Km’ as part of the actual address are always > related to a specific 'highway:milestone’ on that particular highway. For > instance, the address for the Hilton Guatemala Vista Real Hotel in > Guatemala - as it appears on their official website: [ > https://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/guatemala/hilton-guatemala-city-GUALLHH/index.html] > - is ‘Km. 9.5 CA-1 East Vista Real Complex, Guatemala City, 01015’. What > this means is the location is 500 meters from where the > 'highway:milestone=9’ on that particular ‘CA-1 East’ highway... > I think we're close to hitting the record for how misleading a tag name can be. This is a proposal for a tag addr:milestone to allow us to specify a distance in kilometres (not miles), of a house (not a milestone) and the nearest milestone isn't a stone but a sign. If the locals call the road markers (marked in kilometres and which are not stones) milestones then there is some slight justification for addr:milestone. But only slight, because the address doesn't give the nearest "milestone" but a distance along a road. If I understand you correctly, this is actually a distance along a particular highway. A distance from where, exactly? A highway has two ends, and there may be a milestone (that is neither a stone, nor marked in miles) 9km from each end. I assume that since the address is in Guatemala City, that would be what is used for addr:city; I also assume that since the street is CA-1 East, that would be what is used for addr:street. Therefore the only other thing required would be addr:distance to specify the distance from addr:city along addr:street. Unless the locals call road markers "milestones" and think of the "9.5km" in terms of milestones, addr:milestone is a horrific misnomer and addr:distance better. -- Paul
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