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<p>On 2020-12-20 16:30, ndrw wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">On 20/12/2020 12:45, Dave Abbott wrote:</span>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">There is a page at <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/UK_Address_Mapping" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/UK_Address_Mapping</a> which mentions "suggested tags" but there is no evidence that this is in use. If correct I would be tagging as -<br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">addr:housenumber=99</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">addr:street=Postal Street</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">addr:town=Smalltown</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">addr:city=Largertown</span><br /><br /></blockquote>
This is correct, although there is no consensus wrt to the tag used for Smalltown. I'm using one of addr:villlage|suburb|town myself. There was a proposal to switch to addr:locality only, which I argued against in the past, but it would indeed match RM addressing better and often classification of the locality is unclear.<br /><br /> This is not the only problem with RM<->OSM address tagging. RM defines following address structure:<br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Dependent thoroughfare</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> addr:place (?)</span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">This is unlikely to be a good match. An example of a Dependent Thoroughfare would be "2, Orchard Cottages, Green Lane" where "Orchard Cottages" is the Dependent Thoroughfare.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Thoroughfare<br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> addr:street</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Double dependent locality</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> addr:hamlet|district (?)</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Dependent locality</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> addr:town|village|suburb|locality (?)</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Post Town</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> addr:city</span><br /> Postcode<br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> addr:postcode</span><br /><br /><br /> This often becomes an issue when mapping business parks, hospital/university campuses etc.<br /><br /> ndrw6<br /><br /><br /><br /> _______________________________________________<br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Talk-GB mailing list</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a></span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a></span></div>
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