Hi Graeme and happy new year,
   How much can you datamine from a suburb:left , suburb:right ? I would
suggest suburb polygons and street names only which would cover all
eventualities and allow for the change in the suburb area without having to
touch each road affected

Ewen



On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 15:13, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Would left / right help at all?
>
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Forward_%26_backward,_left_%26_right#Left_and_right
>
> Contemplating something like:
> addr:name=Sandgate Road + addr:suburb:left=Clayfield +
> addr:suburb:right=Albion
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
>
>
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 13:52, Andrew Davidson <thesw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 1:42 PM Andrew Hughes <ahhug...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > In the interest of stirring up a hornets nest (jokes). I'd like to know
>> what could be said for tagging ways (streets/roads) with add:suburb (or
>> addr:county...) where the suburb (or other region/area) the road "belongs"
>> to can NOT be spatially determined (i.e. typically runs along or forms the
>> boundary of the suburb/area).
>> >
>> > I'll leave it at that (purposely open ended).
>>
>> The addr:* namespace is for recording physical addresses ie: along
>> with a house number. What you are looking for is the is_in:*
>> namespace.
>>
>> I will leave it up to the reader to figure out how useful this type of
>> tagging is.
>>
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Ewen Hill
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