Can I ask two basic daft questions? What use are these in OSM if we only pick at them instead of importing the lot ( which is highly unlikely)? Is it possible to derive street names from USRN in a way that is licence compatible?
Regards Brian On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 13:14, Mark Goodge <m...@good-stuff.co.uk> wrote: > > > On 09/04/2020 20:58, nd...@redhazel.co.uk wrote: > > If uprn is supposed to denote an address, why not simply use addr:uprn? > > It doesn't denote an address. While a lot of premises that have a UPRN > also have an address, there are also many that don't. Every individual > field in an agricultural area has a UPRN, for example, as do things like > telephone boxes and street lamps. In fact, one of the main reasons > behind the adoption of UPRNs as the unique identifier for properties is > that addresses alone can't fulfil that purpose. > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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