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 used name=
On 19 March 2020 9:39:52 pm AEDT, Ben Kelley <ben.kel...@gmail.com> wrote: >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: > >> Hi >> >> 2 things on addresses. >> >> 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:housenumber there >should be no addr:housename. >> See >https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr#Commonly_used_subkeys >> >> Secondly remote addresses - Roadside Mail Box/Bag, Roadside Mail >Service, Private Bag etc. >> >> These are hard to find out how to map them on the wiki, I think they >need to go into the Australian Tagging guidelines. >> >> The answer is the same for PO boxes - use addr:full=* >> >> Thoughts? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> Talk-au@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >> > > >-- >Ben Kelley >ben.kel...@gmail.com >https://mrebenezer.blogspot.com/
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