On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote:
> On 2/4/2015 11:25 PM, Greg Morgan wrote: > >> addr:housenumber contains both the number >> and the building letter in the same field. The map is useful because >> you can find the building. How have other people tried to handle these >> situations? >> > > I haven't tried in any meaningful way. It's too early to guess how an > address matching utility might work. Until now I have used both > > addr:housenumber=724D > > and > addr:housenumber=724 + addr:unit=D > > depending on whether the address specified by the owner's web site > included the letter. More recently, I've gravitated towards separating > the addr:unit even if the owner specified it as one word, but I'm not sure > it's the most useful. The addr:housenumber doesn't render anyway if the > building has also been tagged as another POI that renders. > > Including a unit number in the house number is incorrect and potentially confusing. There are house numbers that have a prefix or suffix as part of the house number, that's a different thing. It just depends on how the building is addressed.
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