[mkgmap-dev] Associating addr:housenumber with a street

Sun Jan 22 09:11:57 GMT 2012

On 01/20/12 23:39, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 06:43:51PM +0100, Martin wrote:
>> I think most of the housenumbers are connected to a street with the
>> Karlsruhe-Schema (via relation or normal tagging), or?
>
> I have seen both nodes with addr:* tags and building=* ways with addr:*
> tags. Some mappers seem to set addr:housenumber only. I try to set
> addr:street, addr:postcode, addr:city, addr:country. House number
> interpolation lines are rare around here; I have come across one.

just some quick remarks :)

i prefer setting addresses for the building ways, but that's not really 
feasible if one building has several housenumbers assigned, of course.

i sometimes set housenumber only, but that's because i don't have street 
name information in my data (photos, usually)

general osm view seems to be that city & country are not encouraged to 
be used as they should be possible to derive from other (border) data

> I guess that the algorithm could be something like this:
>
> * For all polygons that carry addr:housenumber, create an imaginary
> address point for the centroid. Process these converted points as well
> as all points that carry addr:housenumber. (I would not convert every
> way or node with addr:housenumber node to a fully featured POI. They
> should only be included in the house number index.)
>
> * Do whatever is needed for processing relations or interpolation lines.
> Or ignore them in the initial version.
>
> * If addr:street exists, try to match it to a nearby highway=*
> name=${addr:street}. Complain and ignore the house number if no matching
> street is found nearby. Maybe try matching to name:*=${addr:street} as
> well, for multilingual areas.
>
> * If addr:street does not exist, attach the point to the nearest
> highway=*&  highway!=service&  name!=*. If no such way exists nearby,
> complain and ignore the house number.
>
> * The search distance ('nearby') should be a configuration parameter.
>
> Best regards,
>
> 	Marko
-- 
  Rich