On 27/05/2015 09:07, Colin Smale wrote:
What are the use cases for an "address"? Is it as a routing target? A "label" or "annotation" for a building? or a "property" in a looser sense? Is it for the benefit of the postman? Or what?
As Christian Quest explained on talk-fr just minutes ago, an address is all that and more: a building, a cadastral plot, an entrance, a piece of equipment inside... But foremost it is an identifier - being at a specific geographic position comes second to that.
Absent any information, tagging the plot is better than nothing. A building is better - and even better is the main entrance or an even finer scheme to separate entrance and postbox... But as Christian said, learning to walk precedes learning to run - having an address at all is the essential step.
Also, the address must be unique - it must not be present on more than one object, even if more than one POI exists at that address.
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