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What is the OpenStreetMap convention? Do we tag addresses on buildings or on separate nodes?

Mappers need to keep in mind that different countries have different addressing conventions (even without the block addresses), and forcing the other countries to the system used elsewhere just won’t work. Some can assign every entrance to one house number, others can have just one house number for an apartment complex consisting of several disjoint buildings (with buildings/staircases/entrances then identified with a “staircase ref”); or one street corner building with a single entrance can have a house number on every neighbouring street, even with a lit number on each respective wall - none of them is more important or correct than the others. For what it’s worth, here we do as described in the entry: address on the building way whenever possible, otherwise (has addresses on several streets) as nodes inside the building way.

GPS visualizer - minor updates

Fix for my comment: the logs don't include the lines with the "ele" and "/ele" at all. The proprietary logs don't have it, or the converter doesn't know how to handle it.

GPS visualizer - minor updates

I got the same error. Thanks to user ij_ who found that the fault was, that my logs don't include the .. line (converted from Nüvi proprietary binary format). Commenting out lines 109, 110, 243 and 244 in logdraw.pl made it work for me, but that was the dirty way to fix it. Maybe skorasaurus has the same problem?

You answer me there or send me to SPECIFIC forum: more tags for highways needed

The Map features page lists only a basic set of tags to get people started.
For "no bicycles", there's bicycle=no:
osm.wiki/Key:bicycle

The applications that consume OSM data probably don't yet use any of these:
osm.wiki/Key:overtaking
osm.wiki/Tag:highway=stop
osm.wiki/Tag:highway=give_way

When the number of lanes changes, you split the way into two (or more) consecutive ways, and change the lanes tag on the correct part.

Experience

Check the records of your incident - did the person calling the police call you a burglar ("libel" ring a bell?), or just "something suspicious"? If the latter, the shame is only on the police. There's a reason people can't call random people, say, murderers without consequences.

What am I missing?

Waste baskets, benches
Rest of the house numbers, residential buildings, their entrances, building:levels tags
Fences, hedges, scrubs, cliffs, retaining walls
Smaller aka. minor power lines
Parking restrictions on the streets
Overtaking restrictions
Underground water pipes
Private driveways