<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 1, 2020, 09:21 Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #93a3b8;padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div>Still, even that is <br></div></blockquote><div>"Ben Tilly reports on Ten Post Office Sq, Boston MA 02109 USA - which
is not, <br></div><div>reportedly, the same as 10 Post Office Sq, Boston MA 02109 USA."<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">yes and no.</div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br>Ben is alas correct. Boston really did allow this insanity, much to the consternation of taxi and delivery drivers. (I wonder if Ben met with the same people there that I did ...) </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">They are (were?) adjacent buildings and the lobby reception/security were very aware that lost people should be sent next door. I forget if i've ever heard *why* they didn't just do some pair of 8, 10, 12 ... probably neither developer would accept being not 10. *sigh* (Each could have an entirely different street address based on the street defining its side of of the "square". Obviously this being Boston the so-called "square" is a trapezoid and not square, or a triangle if you include the little appendage park on the side, but i don't think that qualifies for POSquare vanity addresses.)</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">(I'm not sure if this will remain true once the new construction on P.O.Square is done.)</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">So housename "Ten" and housenumber "10".<br></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Usually here, a vanity building name is "Pretty Fancy Place" with no number, or "One Somewhere Place", not Ten, but this pair of buildings it's Ten/10 Something Square.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As i understand that block an actual housenumber would be on the through street defining the side of the square, so those might both be housename "Ten <span style="font-family:sans-serif">Post Office Square</span>" and "10 Post Office Square" and not use housenumber. They are both fanciful names assigned by the developer, not connected to the city street naming. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And thus neither is the 10/Ten the housename alone.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(If the new construction is replacing both 10 and Ten iirc, perhaps they'll name the block long replacement X Post Office Square? Better would be the real street number !!)</div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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