MW: " ...your tagging will not be put to use" ... except by people looking at maps on screen or on paper - who might find it useful.
So, as usual, the people writing applications will have to do a little dance with the people tagging nodes with house numbers. :-) PaulY On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Marcus Wolschon <mar...@wolschon.biz> wrote: > On 3/14/09, paul youlten <paul.youl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As I understand the Karlsruhe schema you are allowed to tag >> addr:housenumbers with non-numeric characters (e.g: "120b") so there >> is no reason you couldn't tag a node "1 to 500" or "1–500". >> >> I suppose you could use addr:housename = "1 to 500" but that seems a >> bit counter-intuitive. > > You could but unless anyone writing applications > that search for house-numbers know about it your > tagging will not be put to use. > I`m preparing the proof of concept I wrote in > the Karlsruhe meeting to make TS navigate to house > numbers just this weekend. It`d not be able to find > where house-number 246 was in your example until > you pointed out this new semantics in your posting. > As fas as I see it`s not yet documented. Is this schema > in actual use? > > Non-numeric characters are for house-numbers that > actually contain these characters. Like your "120b"- > example. > > Marcus > -- Tel: +44(0) 7814 517 807 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
