From 73280f487386fdb7267221c580a3f5b754b5bd4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Harvey Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 16:36:13 +1000 Subject: only include addr:flats if not too long --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5e6bede..ff3e314 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Multiple points overlapping don't add any extra value to the OSM data and are ar Data consumers can still easily explode `addr:flats` out into overlapping nodes with varying `addr:unit` if desired. -Because OSM tag values are limited to 255 characters, if the constructed `addr:flats` exceeds this it is split across `addr:flats`, `addr:flats1`, etc. While not ideal I don't see any other option. +However to avoid creating too many immediate problems, given OSM Carto will include `addr:flats` as a map label, without truncating long strings, if the flats range includes more than 3 then `addr:flats` is ommitted. This is not ideal, but is more conservative given this is a bulk import. 3. Where all the overlapping points have no units and the same street, suburb, state, postcode but different housenumbers, the housenumbers are combined into a range. -- cgit v1.2.3