Hi,
On 20/12/2020 15:50, Alan Mackie wrote:
I'm also unclear how to tag numbered houses in named terraces.
addr:housename doesn't seem appropriate if they are shared along an
entire row and addr:street already has a value.
In NE England there are a number of 1850ish - 1900ish terraces where the
terrace is named, rather than the surrounding highway.
This caused me a lot of confusion when starting out cycle surveying and
mapping as what street signs there were, conflicted. :-)
A good indication of such a situation up here is a battered enamel tin
plate (dark blue rusty) or cast iron (just rusty) name plate on the
terrace - original, and probably installed when the highway was
compacted earth!
I just add `name`="Fourth Row" to the `building=terrace` for simplicity,
although duplicating with `addr:housename` also seems OK.
These days, I also use the JOSM terracer to break terraces into
dwellings - survey, count the chimneys, or check the high-res Bing back
garden fence imagery.
I've also run into this for blocks of flats. "Block B" doesn't seem
like a housename either? The addr:block tags seems to be for named
city blocks.
Do we have some sort of local grouping tag?
There's a few options mentioned in
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr (which is probably the
issue here - the lowest common denominator across cultures will always
give confusion!).
I've used `addr:unit` for commercial premises (like 1A, 1B, 2, etc for
shops) but `addr:block` seems to be for a very different use case (grid
iron city blocks - Fifteenth and...).
The simple `name` or `addr:housename` tag kind of fits the hierarchy, so
KISS?
Happy Mapping,
James
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