I addressed this topic in the Karlsruhe discussion page, but didn't get much constructive input. Maybe it's more of a US problem. Still I thought I should bring it here, since tagging has been split off from general Talk.
In Fort Worth, TX, (pop. approaching a million) in a large number of the suburban areas, the city planners apparently decided to take into consideration the possibility of having duplex housing (two residences with a single common wall) in each plat or lot, even though the large majority of housing is single family. They therefore allocated two house numbers per lot. Consequently, in single family dwelling areas, with even/odd numbering, the numbering sequences go 00, 04, 08, 12, etc. for even (N/W), and and 01, 05, 08, 13, etc. for odd (S/E) house numbering. I don't know of any way to handle this with the current interpolation scheme. Considering the thousands of housenumbers involved, I need to be able to use interpolation for numbering, but current agents would render twice the number of house numbers as actually exist. I have a suggested scheme of adding an interpolation subkey, addr:interpolation:skip=*, where skip would be the number of house numbers to skip in the sequence (all/even/odd). Using skip=1, with interpolation=even/odd I can map these cases. I realize that this creates a redundant tagging option (interpolation=all, skip=1 with odd or even starting number) but I doubt that will be used since the original is easier to tag, and I can't think of a better way to do this. I'm fairly new to OSM, and this may not be the best way to pursue this idea, so suggestions, either for process, or for a better solution, are invited. -- Randy _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
