Our postbox stands about 10m from our house, and about 20m from our main entrance. Though we only use our main entrance once or twice per week, so it's hardly our main entrance. And there's no way you can find our entrance without coming in our front-yard.
So I prefer to add a housenumber to the identifying feature. If a building has multiple doors, with different housenumbers, then tag the entrances with the numbers. If a building matches one-to-one with a housenumber, tag that building with the housenumber. If there are multiple buildings under one address (for example a school), then tag the outline (the amenity=school area f.e.) with the housenumber. Finding a general rule doesn't work, for one company (bPost) the address is the post box, for another company (package delivery), the address is the delivery entrance, for people, the address is the front door, ... So I think you must interpret every case as see it, and find the most descriptive feature for it. After all, for software, it's easy to extract a centroid from an area. And it can also be handy when the address is linked to a physical feature with extra tags. For example, if you have a commercial building with one address, but a delivery and a customer entrance, clever routing software could be able to see that the address is tagged on the building, and that the building way contains two nodes tagged with entrance=*, so it could ask you which entrance you want. And the JOSM problem is just that, a JOSM problem. It's not something the data users will be annoyed with. Regards, Sander 2015-03-17 14:29 GMT+01:00 henkevdb <m...@henkevdb.be>: > My preference is mapping a house or building as 'yes', and then place a > node with the address number and street in the building/house as close > nearby to the 'main' entrance, because that is usually the place where the > postbox also is. Or is that wrong ? > Also, when a building has a 'strange', and often large shape, josm then > places the address number sometimes in a corner of that shape/building , > way of the 'main' entrance. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >
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