Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
Join OpenStreetMap and start mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org/.
There are many communication channels about OSM, many organized around a certain country or region. Discover them on https://openstreetmap.community/
https://mapcomplete.org/ is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)
https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.
I don't know how it renders, but the idea was you could mark the address at the beginning of the block and the address at the end of the block, and then address finders would try to guess the intermediate addresses if anybody asked for them.
I think they've fallen out of favor and now people just add addresses to every building. Maybe.
the idea was you could mark the address at the beginning of the block and the address at the end of the block, and then address finders would try to guess the intermediate addresses if anybody asked for them.
Yes but when the end points have no house numbers tagged, the sole thing left is the information that one side of the street has even numbers and the other has odd numbers which is completely useless information.
It's documented in the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses#Interpolation
It was very useful in the early days, when no housenumbers were mapped, to fill the map quickly. If all numbers mapped since, you can delete this line.
Search and navigation software supports these elements. I just checked, osmand interpolates the location of a number if you search for it. Nominatim and OrganicMaps both just find this line if you search for an intermediate number.
As others have said, these are lines to make it possible to guess where a specific house number might be based on the start and end numbers of the line.
I usually recommend against deleting this kind of thing unless you can confirm that locals don't care or if it's not present in surrounding blocks.
