My thoughts. If the house number is within the terrace:
addr:housename=Dunroamin
addr:housenumber=5
addr:substreet=Park View
addr:parentstreet=Commercial Road
If numbered on the main street, use addr:street, and drop the substreet.
If the boundary of the terrace is clear:
landuse=residential
name=Park View
If the house boundary is clear:
building=...
name=Dunroamin
or, if the curtilage of an individual house is clear, use landuse and
put name=Dunroamin on that.
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David Woolley
On 22/02/2026 12:47, John Rowbotham via Talk-GB wrote:
Can I get some advice please on tagging a parade of terraced houses?
I'm in northwest England surrounded by thousands of old terraces often
with their own identity.
Many of the rows built in the years following the 1890 Act consist of
about 10 houses and feature a plaque somewhere between the upstairs
windows of the middle properties. This handily states the year they were
built (which I can duly add to the 'start date' tag on the map). That
plaque also shows the name for the parade. These can be as banal as
modern housing development names (Park View, etc) but sometimes have a
name related to a builder, architect or local benefactor from the late
Victorian era.
The correct postal address for each property is as you'd expect: house
number and road name. Not the name on the plaque. Sometimes individual
house have their own names as well on plaques, usually related to the
current owner (viz 'Dunromin' etc). These can easily be added to the
House Name tag. But the parade does have its own name, which is clear
to see on site and crucially, often used locally to identify the houses,
area or location.
If I tag it under Name (ie the wiki's "The most prominent name on a sign
posted on the feature itself, especially for a feature in the built
environment") then for a parade of houses mapped individually, the map
shows the same name over and over again.
So - what am I doing wrongly or how do I best record this name without
cluttering the map?
Thank you,
John. <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/no%20details%20provided%20here>
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