in case it wasnt bad enough, there's 40A to the right of it: https://i.imgur.com/MhED15C_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
if we are using ASCII do we put a space between 40 and 1/2 to avoid 401/2? it's the main advantage of using ½ so you can easily decifer what it is(apart from multi-byte character parsing) On Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 12:47 AM Johnparis, <ok...@johnfreed.com> wrote: > I think Google, at least, is aware of it and made a decision not to use > the ½. > > In another project, I gained some experience with their mapping API, and > the lack of ½ (and bis, etc.) caused some headaches when trying to > geocode addresses. For your example, trying to resolve 40½ Rue de > Carillon gives a "partial match" and returns just the geocode for "Rue de > Carillon", not even "40 Rue de Carillon". > > > https://www.google.ca/maps/search/40%C2%BD+Rue+de+Carillon,+Gatineau,+QC+J8X+2N7,+Canada/@45.4284038,-75.7238724,19z/data=!3m1!4b1 > > So for the other project, we had to strip out the numerical modifiers (½, > bis ...) before trying to geocode. We could have tried to interpolate but > that would have created other headaches. > > > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:41 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> https://www.google.ca/maps/place/40+Rue+de+Carillon,+Gatineau,+QC+J8X+2N7/@45.4286021,-75.7232533,19z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4cce048bb61faba1:0x6e537799a3a8fb18 >> >> Google just removes the ½ and only resolves the 40. >> >> Same with bing: >> https://binged.it/2FAlwVK >> >> Same with Here maps: >> >> https://wego.here.com/canada/gatineau/street-square/40-rue-de-carillon--loc-dmVyc2lvbj0xO3RpdGxlPTQwK1J1ZStkZStDYXJpbGxvbjtsYW5nPWZyO2xhdD00NS40Mjg1MzkyNzYxMjMwNTtsb249LTc1LjcyMzE5NzkzNzAxMTcyO3N0cmVldD1SdWUrZGUrQ2FyaWxsb247aG91c2U9NDA7Y2l0eT1HYXRpbmVhdTtwb3N0YWxDb2RlPUo4WCsyTjc7Y291bnRyeT1DQU47ZGlzdHJpY3Q9UXVhcnRpZXIrZGUrSHVsbDtzdGF0ZT1RdWViZWM7c3RhdGVDb2RlPVFDO2NvdW50eT1HYXRpbmVhdTtjYXRlZ29yeUlkPWJ1aWxkaW5nO3NvdXJjZVN5c3RlbT1pbnRlcm5hbDtubGF0PTQ1LjQyODUzMTY0NjcyODUxNjtubG9uPS03NS43MjMzNTA1MjQ5MDIzNA?map=45.42838,-75.72271,19,normal&msg=40%20Rue%20de%20Carillon >> >> I'm thinking they are not aware of it.... >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 4:12 PM Michał Brzozowski, <www.ha...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I'd look how other map providers solved this. >>> >>> On a side note, why I've never see such phrase on this list? We'd figure >>> out many problems by looking how others do things. There's nothing wrong >>> with it. >>> >>> Michał >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:06 PM, Brad Neuhauser < >>> brad.neuhau...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I found it hard to pull out usage of "1/2" through taginfo, but was >>>> able to search for usage of the UTF-8 version (½): >>>> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=%C2%BD#values It's used >>>> very few times (~200) and many are by the same user, which seems like more >>>> argument against using UTF-8. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:17 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> so far the fractions I've seen are ½ and ¾ and ¼. On phones it's very >>>>> easy to input fraction in unicode(press and hold the numerical value of >>>>> the >>>>> numerator: 1 for ½, ¼ or 2 for ⅔), but I agree that dealing with Bom of >>>>> UTF-8 usually ends up being messed up and is why I'm asking what the norm >>>>> for OSM is >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 12:04 PM Vladimír Slávik, < >>>>> slavik.vladi...@seznam.cz> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Technical: Unicode will be hard to manipulate by hand without a table >>>>>> of characters/symbols to copy from. Subsequent editors or users down the >>>>>> chain of tools will break it. Most prominently, search may break, because >>>>>> users will not know how to input 1/2. (Oh look, I just didn't, >>>>>> either...). >>>>>> >>>>>> Is it common to have more complicated fractions? Here we append >>>>>> letters to do the same, and I have seen places where they had to go all >>>>>> the >>>>>> way to "h" - which would be 1/8 for you? Or 8/8? Does unicode even have >>>>>> 8/8? I haven't been able to find a decisive answer. >>>>>> ---------- Původní e-mail ---------- >>>>>> Od: James <james2...@gmail.com> >>>>>> Komu: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools < >>>>>> tagging@openstreetmap.org> >>>>>> Datum: 12. 3. 2018 16:46:40 >>>>>> Předmět: [Tagging] Tagging fraction house numbers? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> https://i.imgur.com/eigT5hX_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium >>>>>> >>>>>> How should this be tagged in housenumber? 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