Adding entrances

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I have had 2 problems with adding entrances which arent answered on the wiki.

  1. Usually you can add something like adress=65-95 or something similair, but is there a way to do that for adresses with a suffix? Like 98-2 and 98-3 sharing the same entrance? Example
  2. When searching for the adress the entrance of a specific adress, on the OSM site it shows the entrance as being a house itself. How can this be fixed? Example
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“-” has never been a valid separator for house numbers (you just found out one of the reasons), use a , or ; .

If need to specify a range, that is, there’s an unmanageable number of addresses that you can’t list individually or distribute in an other way, I would use an address Interpolation.

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I would apply the “37 Kerkstraat” part of the address to the site or building only. Or, if there is a main entrance / reception / office, you could apply it to that also.

For the individual entrances, I would only use the room / unit / section number, if at all.

Here: Way: ‪Morrison House‬ (‪1456739601‬) | OpenStreetMap the building is called Morrison House, with approximately 100 apartments. While there are two main entrances, some of the ground floor apartments have their own, independent entrance. Each entrance is then tagged with the apartment number (or range of numbers) it serves. Not perfect, but it shows what can be done.

Note that Nominatim returns descriptions, not addresses.

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Hmmmm. Entrances are very odd then. I’ve read both your replies but I don’t really have a reply :P

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There is no need to put addresses on the first entrance. Sounds more like a destination sign on the entrance than the address of the entrance.

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I had never heard of interpolations and had been using hyphens for terrace numbers a lot on Street Complete, thank you

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I’ve been using an interpolation way just inside the entrance for addr:housenumber ranges (for places where the flats each have a housenumber). This solves the problem that, in my area, there are often blocks of flats with ‘odd’ or ‘even’ house numbers only. Example: Way: 1456531171 | OpenStreetMap

But there are places where it would be nice to have addr:interpolation between addr:flats. Per the wiki and common validators, this is not supported.