[OSM-newbies] Flats

[Chris Morley]

Mark Williams wrote:
> I have an interesting layout;
> 
> M
> A  FLATS
> I-STREET-
> N  FLATS |
> --STREET-
> R  FLATS
> O-STREET
> A
> D
> 
> Where the _flats_ are named but the streets (highway=service, I feel)
> are not. In blocks of 3 x 8 flats with parking between road & flats.
> Additionally the streets are marked private & the main road is one-way :)
> 
> The entrances are set alternately, so you gain access to 1-8 & 17-24 on
> one side of the building, but 9-16 on the other.
> 
> This means that the streets are eg Meresmans on one side, but Waymans on
> the other. Sort of like terraced houses, but not. The post office
> address these including both names, yielding
> number/block/road/village/post-town/county addresses !
> 
> I presume I could just put in a block & name it, or a linear feature,
> but it won't work for navigation, or I could name the service roads &
> call them residential with left / right tags; what would others do?
> 
I would draw and name the flats as buildings. In your case you could 
even reuse the nodes of the main road and service roads. For 
free-standing blocks, placement and sizing are difficult without high 
resolution arial photography, but a guess (with a note so it can be 
corrected when better information is available) is better than nothing.

The numbering is beyond what recorded in much of the database and 
certainly beyond what is currently rendered and I'm not sure that there 
is a consensus on how to record it. However, with the blocks on the map 
and even without numbering information, it is much easier to understand 
notices like Waymans 9-16 which commonly appear at the junction of the 
service roads with the main road.

Chris