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<div>Tag the houses with addr:place maybe?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Or, better method is to use the alternative terrace taggong scheme where each house is tagged as building:part=house within a larger building=terrace. (Terracer plugin lets you do this if you check "keep outline way")<br></div><div><br></div><div>IpswichMapper</div><div>-- <br></div><div> <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>20 Dec 2020, 15:50 by aamackie@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'm also unclear how to tag numbered houses in named terraces. <br></div><div><br></div><div><div>addr:housename doesn't seem appropriate if they are shared along an entire row and addr:street already has a value.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Do we have some sort of local grouping tag?<br></div></div><div><br></div><div class=""><div class="" dir="ltr">On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 10:32, ndrw <<a href="mailto:ndrw6@redhazel.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ndrw6@redhazel.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div>On 20/12/2020 12:45, Dave Abbott wrote:<br></div><div> > There is a page at <br></div><div> > <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/UK_Address_Mapping">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/UK_Address_Mapping</a> <br></div><div> > which mentions "suggested tags" but there is no evidence that this is <br></div><div> > in use. If correct I would be tagging as -<br></div><div> ><br></div><div> > addr:housenumber=99<br></div><div> > addr:street=Postal Street<br></div><div> > addr:town=Smalltown<br></div><div> > addr:city=Largertown<br></div><div> ><br></div><div> This is correct, although there is no consensus wrt to the tag used for <br></div><div> Smalltown. I'm using one of addr:villlage|suburb|town myself. There was <br></div><div> a proposal to switch to addr:locality only, which I argued against in <br></div><div> the past, but it would indeed match RM addressing better and often <br></div><div> classification of the locality is unclear.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> This is not the only problem with RM<->OSM address tagging. RM defines <br></div><div> following address structure:<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Dependent thoroughfare<br></div><div> addr:place (?)<br></div><div> Thoroughfare<br></div><div> addr:street<br></div><div> Double dependent locality<br></div><div> addr:hamlet|district (?)<br></div><div> Dependent locality<br></div><div> addr:town|village|suburb|locality (?)<br></div><div> Post Town<br></div><div> addr:city<br></div><div> Postcode<br></div><div> addr:postcode<br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> This often becomes an issue when mapping business parks, <br></div><div> hospital/university campuses etc.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> ndrw6<br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> _______________________________________________<br></div><div> Talk-GB mailing list<br></div><div> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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