Validator: addr-tags should be shown as error on any object with highway=*

[stephan75]

By checking postalcodes in Germany I came accross many ways with highway=* and some addr-tags. mainly addr:postalcode=XXXX

This is wrong, because an addr-tags on any highway is not logical in OSM tagging schema.

(Alternatively you can add a postal_code=XXX tag to any highway that indicates this way belonging to a certain postalcode district ... but this is almost deprecated IMHO)

To visualize the "wrong" existing OSM data, go to ​http://operpass-turbo.eu ... zoom to any area you want to investigate, use Wizard feature there and type the following in the query form:

highway=* and "addr:postcode"=*

(try further "addr:street" or "addr:city" or other established addr-tags there)

So please show an error or warning in JOSM Validator results on those objects.

[stephan75]

After investigating more data via overpass-turbo.eu I would extend the validators warning even to:

addr:* and boundary=*

addr:* and place=*

[stephan75]

With great pleasure I can see first changes in JOSM 7906 from end of December 2014:

Validator gives an alert about addr:street=* and highway=* on any object ... Thanks a lot!!

Let's see about any effect on the OSM database ... what about then trying the other "faulty" combinations?

[Klumbumbus]

In 8043/josm:

fix #9811 - add validator warning for addr:*=* together with highway, place or boundary

[naoliv]

Should the test ignore place=farm?

[Klumbumbus]

I thought about it and kept it in, because I did not find it on taginfo for place=farm. However there are 416 nodes and 20 ways with place=farm + addr:housenumber. ​http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/7Ce

[Klumbumbus]

In 8049/josm:

see #9811 - improve validator warning for addr:*=* together with place

[anonymous]

highway=bus_stop with addr:housenumber is used often by some; the location of a stop can be and is sometimes referenced as "stop at Foostreet 32", their names may not help in finding them. Such combinations shouldn't be tagged as warning.

[naoliv]

Should also ignore highway=services and highway=rest_area?

[Klumbumbus]

Replying to anonymous:

highway=bus_stop with addr:housenumber is used often by some; the location of a stop can be and is sometimes referenced as "stop at Foostreet 32", their names may not help in finding them. Such combinations shouldn't be tagged as warning.

A bus stop does not have an address. You should map the address as own object.

[Klumbumbus]

In 8245/josm:

see #9811 - do not warn about address tags on highway=services|rest_area

[Klumbumbus]

In 11548/josm:

fix #14310, see #11491, see #9811 - don't warn about addr:postcode together with place=* (used this way in some countries)

(If this combination is "wrong" in your country you can add a country specific rule at https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Rules with a territory selector.)