Adamant36
commented
4 years ago The Wiki says (and I'm pretty sure that the discuss said to) that it's suppose to be used for a range of numbers. So, your example is probably miss-tagging. Doing a quick glance at TagInfo it seems like values aren't that way. You should take it as an opportunity improve tagging, like would be done in any other similar situation. It's not like the name, ref, or any other similar tags don't have the same problem to some degree.
sanderd17
Zverik
jeisenbe
andrewharvey
pnorman
imagico
Expected behavior
The
addr:flatstag is used to encode apartment numbers into OSM. Big apartments will usually have a big number of flats, and thus a long list under theaddr:flatstag.In contrast to
addr:unit(which is meant to address a single unit),addr:flatsis usually a list of apartments. These apartments are usually also on top of each other.It's geographical info that can be used for address completion/verification, but IMO is very unsuited for rendering on a 2D map.
Actual behavior
Ugly long lists of numbers which makes it almost impossible to find the housenumbers.
Links and screenshots illustrating the problem
Solution
Revert #3988 and display only
addr:unitfor separate addressed building units.