I ended up adding all the shop tags on the building. It only works for
buildings with only 1 shop/restaurant/pub/...

m.


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Glenn Plas <gl...@byte-consult.be> wrote:

> On 04/16/2013 11:01 AM, Marc Gemis wrote:
>
>> Maybe I should start using the fixaddresses plugin
>> I've been using the plugins terracer, building tool, etc. for over 1 1/2
>> year. I even wrote a page on it: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**
>> wiki/User:Escada/JOSM_and_**Housenumbers<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Escada/JOSM_and_Housenumbers>
>>  :-)
>>
>> But now that I have a python script to convert my GPX trails, they do not
>> fit perfectly in my workflow. I start from nodes that are tagged with
>> building=house and addr:housenumber=XXX (after importing my modified GPX
>> trail). I still use the terrace plugin to split though. I do use the
>> stylesheets too.
>>
> If the nodes area already a building node, I understand why that messes
> things up.  you will probably loose information when using terracer on them
> (there is some precedence).   What I really like about it is that when
> selecting the trio (ctrl-select) street/addrnode/building(way) , after
> pressing SHIFT-T, it keeps the street selected, that saves you a click when
> doing the next building.
>
>
>> Did you try looking up businesses represented as nodes in buildings with
>> address information ? Nomatim does not understand this (I think). Should we
>> map for Nomatim, not sure ...
>>
>>  I just did this:"century 21 compas" , nominatim finds it right back but
> you're right from the results set it looks like it didn't pick up the
> housenumber of the building that encompasses it.  bummer, as that could
> count for a implicit relation between both.
>
> There are still some duplicates in there on my fix list, like this
> take-away chinese restaurant:
>
> "Xing Fu Lou"
>
> There both building + node have housenumber, which I think I should remove
> on 1, but that was using the logic we just debunked.
>
> The other way around doesn't seem to function either :
>
> "Brusselsesteenweg 86, Zemst", finds back the house but not the
> amenity/shop.   The question now is, how can we 'fix' this? Duplicate
> address information will fix nominatim, but it messes up the map.
>
> We should defenitely not map for nominatim more than we map for the ....
> map.   The difference is that nominatim is a lot more sensitive to the way
> data is presented/available than the map is.  The latter is slightly more
> 'forgiving' as it's a visual thing, more than a content thing.   So by
> nature it's more sensitive to this sort of situations.
>
>
> Glenn
>
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