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

Sun Jan 22 21:37:00 GMT 2012

On 22/01/12 19:52, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:11:57AM +0200, Rich wrote:
>> i prefer setting addresses for the building ways, but that's not really
>> feasible if one building has several housenumbers assigned, of course.
>
> What does Garmin allow in the house number field? Does it allow numbers
> and letters and some separator? For example, if we have
> addr:housenumber=4 on a building polygon, and the polygon has several
> building=entrance nodes, with ref=A, ref=B, ref=C, the entrances could
> be 4A, 4B, 4C. If the ref were 1,2,3, then the entrances could be 4-1,
> 4-2, 4-3 or 4 Apt. 1, 4 Apt. 2, 4 Apt. 3.

If you have an address on an individual POI you can have numbers such
as 221b or whatever you want.

For street addresses however all you can do is say things like

   for this segment of the road the numbers on the left are the odd
   numbers between 24 and 34 and the numbers on the right are the even
   numbers between 123 and 104.

Well thats as far as I know... we may find out more as we go along.

I'd be quite happy to see code that only considered a well defined
simple subset of the possible tagging situations and made it work.

..Steve