Hi Andrzej,
I feel a bit conflicted here. Having the choice of several tags does
make things easier when adding complicated addresses, but for less
experienced mappers it does also help if things are kept simple. For
example, if better guidance regarding UK address mapping was added to
the wiki, it would definitely be clearer to recommend one main tag for
places below city.
I've noticed that iD varies the address fields shown depending on which
country is being edited. Some countries have a field labelled 'Suburb',
while for the UK the only level above street is 'City'. It would
definitely improve things if another field could be added, but it would
be difficult to argue for adding several fields. Therefore, it would
probably be better to agree on one main locality tag. Whatever happens
tags such as addr:suburb and addr:village are already in use and will
most probably continue to be used.
Cheers,
Will
On 30/01/2019 22:24, Andrzej wrote:
Thank you for the discussion so far. I've been thinking about a
solution for tagging localities that would work for both mappers who
want to tag locality types and those who don't. Current proposals
(addr:town|village and addr:locality|sublocality) are two distinct and
incompatible tagging schemes so reaching a consensus may be impossible.
How about tagging localities as addr:locality|sublocality _and_
addr:locality|sublocality:type=city|town|suburb|village|hamlet|campus,
so they can be added separately and at different times?
Best regards,
Andrzej
On 28 January 2019 04:40:26 GMT+08:00, Andrzej <nd...@redhazel.co.uk>
wrote:
Hi,
When working on post codes in East Anglia I realised the current
address tagging scheme is insufficient for even fairly basic
scenarios. I have already discussed the issues with some of the
most experienced mappers and like to bring these issues to your
attention. Robert has summarised his ideas in
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/UK_Address_Mapping
The bottom line is, I would like to be tag commonly used addresses
without losing information and without resorting to addr:full.
Issues:
1. Post towns (most pressing one because there is a lot of
confusion around it). The UK is fairly unique in that not every
town is a post town. This makes it impossible to tag e.g. Station
Road, Histon, Cambridge CB24 9LF.
Wiki recommends addr:city to be used for tagging post towns
(Cambridge) but then how do we tag Histon?
- Robert recommends sticking to the current meaning of addr:city
and using addr:town and addr:village for town and village names,
which, although not in wiki, are already being used in the UK. I
like this solution because it is very explicit in what each addr:
key means and it doesn't redefine addr:city.
- SK53 prefers using addr:city for everything (towns, even
villages) and either not tagging post towns (they can be seen as a
an internal detail of a closed Royal Mail database) or using a new
tag for it, like addr:post_town. It is a simple solution, results
in Histon being called Histon and not Cambridge (without
introducing new tags for town and village names) and is commonly
used. It is also a bit confusing (what exactly is a city?) and I
think we we should at least support tagging post towns.
Key questions:
a) addr:city for post towns or towns and villages?
b) how to rag remaining information (respectively, towns and
villages or post towns,)
2. Tagging addresses within campuses, business parks etc. There is
addr:place but it is supposed to be used instead of addr:street.
Again, Robert has a fairly decent proposal for that using
addr:place or addr:locality and addr:parentstreet. Please comment.
2a. should buildings in campuses be tagged with
addr:buildingnumber/name or addr:unit? I would prefer
buildingname/number (as they are often subdivided) but these seem
to be associated with addr:street.
3. Similar to (2) but for buildings. Tagging buildings that have
e.g. a single name but multiple house numbers?
Best regards,
ndrw6
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