When I use addr:street I put the entire street's name in the field. Breaking apart that street name into pieces is the job of other tags, I would imagine.
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Steven Johnson <sejohns...@gmail.com> wrote: > When you use addr:street you normally add the street type (e.g. road, > street, land, drive, etc.) in the same field. You may also put cardinals in > there, too. > > > -- SEJ > -- twitter: @geomantic > -- skype: sejohnson8 > > "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -- > Einstein > > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 21:26, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm a bit confused about how Karlsruhe doesn't apply to the US. >> >> When I'm adding addressing information I usually use the following two >> tags: >> >> addr:street=* >> addr:housenumber=* >> >> Those seem to cover the vast majority of addressing use cases in the US. >> What am I missing? >> >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Steven Johnson <sejohns...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Serge, >>> I don't have canned solutions, but I do think there needs to be greater >>> specificity and flexibility in address tagging. The page links to a >>> relatively new national (US) address standard and how we can adopt a >>> lightweight profile of the standard to gain that flexibility and >>> specificity. >>> >>> HTH, >>> >>> >>> -- SEJ >>> -- twitter: @geomantic >>> -- skype: sejohnson8 >>> >>> "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." >>> -- Einstein >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 21:08, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Steven Johnson <sejohns...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Hi all, >>>> > >>>> > I'd like to announce a broad-based project to improve addresses in >>>> OSM. The >>>> > project page is here: >>>> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Address_Improvement >>>> >>>> Can you summarize the project? >>>> >>>> All the Wiki page says right now is there's a problem. >>>> >>>> What is your proposed solution? >>>> >>>> - Serge >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-us mailing list >>> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >>> >>> >> >
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