Re: [talk-au] Postal addresses

2020-03-19 Thread Warin
On 20/3/20 6:58 am, Sebastian S. wrote: In other parts of the world house name or landmarks are used for navigation. I like that although uncommon nowadays. I think landmarks are particularly important for walking routing. I have tagged names of large Appartement Blocks If the name is prominent

Re: [talk-au] Postal addresses

2020-03-19 Thread Warin
On 20/3/20 9:13 am, Andrew Davidson wrote: On 20/03/2020 7:54 am, Andy Mabbett wrote: which does *not* imply that if there is a addr:housenumber there should be no addr:housename, but on the contrary indicates that the two properties can be used at the same time. That's also how I read it.

Re: [talk-au] Postal addresses

2020-03-19 Thread Andrew Davidson
On 20/03/2020 7:54 am, Andy Mabbett wrote: which does *not* imply that if there is a addr:housenumber there should be no addr:housename, but on the contrary indicates that the two properties can be used at the same time. That's also how I read it. ___

Re: [talk-au] Postal addresses

2020-03-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 06:07, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Firstly house names. > > While these exist they are seldom required for postal addresses so the should > not be placed into addr:housename=* but rather into name=*. > > The wiki specifically implies if there is a addr:housenumbe

Re: [talk-au] Postal addresses

2020-03-19 Thread Sebastian S.
In other parts of the world house name or landmarks are used for navigation. I like that although uncommon nowadays. I think landmarks are particularly important for walking routing. I have tagged names of large Appartement Blocks If the name is prominently displayed outside. For that I have use

Re: [talk-au] Postal addresses

2020-03-19 Thread Ben Kelley
Hi. I sometimes tag house names if they are known. I don't think the wiki implies that you should not add house name if you add house number, but I agree it's not generally useful in terms of delivering mail in Australia. - Ben. On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 17:08, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: [talk-au] Postal addresses

2020-03-19 Thread Benjamin Ceravolo
I think addr:full=* sounds great as I can think of at least 5 examples where that can help off the top head straight away. And it probably works better with house names as name=* but that does result in it showing up on the render at specific zoom levels. I don't know if that happened with addr:ho