The issue was discussed in the Italian community forum started by @damianeue, about removal of addresses from POI and off buildings which are purpose build for a business such as an address included in the OBI building where the ‘rule’ in Italy is not to attach addresses to a building way, rather to a node placed where the address shield is, often the streetside gate… to simplify the description, best practice, don’t attach business info to a building in Italy, rather create a POI at center of such a purpose build structure to comply with the rule.
The CS 147128761 in question has several hundred POI hit by this action without prior discussion, my interpretation being, no address on a POI, only the hard way to match an address to a POI. Moreover, the addresses were removed from the POI but no address nodes being created in place when sampling (for proximity matching as was theorized) i.e outright information loss. An example: Q8 fuel station POI: Node: Q8 Easy (227918964) | OpenStreetMap… cant seem to find the address node, nor an address for the hairdresser on the other side of road, which it had before.
Frankly this is… and 4 months later, only few days ago realizing it was not only the post office in Montesilvano I noticed this on and asking the gentlemen. This bulk info delete action is overdue for revert, were it not so much water has already crossed below the bridge, only a massive conflict issue arose when I tried in JOSM other than painstakingly doing it one by one. So, the question is: How can the addresses only be restored without breaking the rest that has changed since
edit: link to CS from which the address deletes need reverting Changeset: 147128761 | OpenStreetMap