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<p>I used to use addr:housename heavily to tag any building name,
especially houses and apartment blocks, but I tend to just use the
"name" key now when tagging residential buildings, maybe just
because it's more readily available in the presets...<br>
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<p>I like the idea of "addr:housename" being specifically about the
<i>building</i> itself though. Others think that it should be used
<i>only </i>if it is commonly used in the postal address of the
place. As you can see, it has been debated for more than a decade:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:addr#addr:housename_vs._name">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:addr#addr:housename_vs._name</a></p>
<p>I do think that they could be both used on the same feature
sometimes: some buildings have a specific, historical name (which
might be engraved in stone, or shown on a small plaque) but are
known as something different because of what they currently house
(a business, a museum...). The latter would be the more obvious
name, often with a bigger, more recent sign on the facade or at
the top, and I would therefore tag it with the "name" key, which
gets prioritised by most renderers.<br>
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<p>I actually enjoy mapping that kind of information a lot, I find
it culturally very interesting and always wonder where the name
came from. And whenever I see a name that is not in OSM, I get a
bit excited. I had some fun with making a map of building names in
the Kurilpa peninsula a while ago:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://web.library.uq.edu.au/files/125535/Water_themed_building_names.pdf">https://web.library.uq.edu.au/files/125535/Water_themed_building_names.pdf</a></p>
<p>For that map, when I processed the data, I prioritised
addr:housename values over name values because I was interested in
building names and wanted to remove potential business names.<br>
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<p>And I reckon everyone should name their home if they feel like
it!</p>
<p>Cheers<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/2/22 20:29, Andrew Davidson wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 9:55 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com"><graemefitz1@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Interesting photo of one house in that article:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.houzz.com.au/photos/summerlees-a-living-piece-of-australian-history-traditional-garden-sydney-phvw-vp~7570749">https://www.houzz.com.au/photos/summerlees-a-living-piece-of-australian-history-traditional-garden-sydney-phvw-vp~7570749</a>
Address out the front is 219 over 7207?
Never seen an Aussie numbering scheme like that before?
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219 was probably the old number before they introduced the new rural
addressing system in NSW. Later photos only have the new number:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://goo.gl/maps/abXKsz9oRohAk4nZ9">https://goo.gl/maps/abXKsz9oRohAk4nZ9</a>
and a different spelling....
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