On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:48:19AM +0000, Steve Doerr wrote: > On 01/03/2011 00:31, John-Michael Wiley wrote: > > > >Unfortunately the data is coming to me from a tool I do not > >control. I simply will be importing the data and allowing someone > >to associate the data provided with areas and nodes on the map. > >Most of the data will be for the US, but there is no guarantee > >that the addresses are correctly formatted which is why I am > >worried about doing something simple like assuming the house > >number is always first and is even always present. > > > >Seems to me like the best thing to do would be to skip the street > >address fields and simply use the ones which have a 1-1 mapping > >(city, country, state/province, postal code, phone). Leave the > >address for someone else. > > > > It might be better to load the information in a custom tag > (addr:line1 perhaps?) so that the information is there for other > mappers to reformat into addr:housenumber and addr:street at a later > date.
There is a key "addr:full" (see description http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr) for this kind of thing. Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
