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<div>I remain unconvinced that the road is called Boat Lane at all. When OS Opendata was first released a quite unfamiliar spelling of a road near where I was brought up was copied into OSM; in this case the discrepancy with the addresses is a red flag against
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Mark Goodge <mark@good-stuff.co.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 12 February 2022 17:48<br>
<b>To:</b> Talk GB <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-GB] Non-intuitive addresses</font>
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On 12/02/2022 17:21, Colin Smale wrote:<br>
>> On 02/12/2022 5:44 PM Mark Goodge <mark@good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:<br>
>> <br>
>> In this particular case, Abbots Walk is not a substreet or, in<br>
>> Royal Mail terms, a dependent thoroughfare. It *is* the street name<br>
>> (or, in RM terms, thoroughfare) in the address, despite the fact<br>
>> that the houses actually face onto a street with a different name.<br>
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> The postal addresses of these premises (1-4 Abbots Walk, and 1-2<br>
> Ferry Cottages, Abbots Walk) are pretty clear to me as they are to<br>
> RM. Other types of address label these properties differently, but if<br>
> we stick to the paradigm that "addr:* is for *postal* addresses, why<br>
> the discussion? Or are we making life difficult by creating<br>
> exceptions and special cases?<br>
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In this particular case, I don't think there is any real difficulty as <br>
far as the building addresses are concerned. It's the name of the street <br>
which is the issue here, and, since there is an open data source for the <br>
correct name, I don't see any problem with changing it in OSM. My real <br>
concern here is how best to ensure that the ensuing mismatch between <br>
postal address and street name is not wrongly interpreted as an error, <br>
and reverted back to the wrong name by someone who mistakenly thinks <br>
they are fixing it. Plus, there's the secondary question of how to map <br>
the name of the block, which is about labelling rather than addressing. <br>
But, again, that's not really a major problem.<br>
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I'm more concerned about the Huxleys Way addresses, where I know that <br>
they are currently wrongly tagged but I have no open data or <br>
on-the-ground source to cite in support of any changes I make. That's <br>
why I'm interested in how other mappers have dealt with the same problem <br>
when they've encountered it elsewhere.<br>
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Mark<br>
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