[OSM-newbies] How to tag one of a named group of houses

[John F. Eldredge]

m902 <m902.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Where possible, I'm trying to use Karlsruhe Schema to tag houses and 
> other buildings.
> But I'm finding numerous examples where it is too limited.
> This way <http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/132578897> is an 
> example. It is a terrace of houses called Addison Terrace (and the two
> 
> blocks to the north are also part of the terrace).
> So the actual address of one of the houses in the terrace is "26
> Addison 
> Terrace, New Road, Gillingham....".
> Now I could probably drop 'New Road', but the problem is that Addison 
> Terrace isn't a highway.
> So "addr:street=Addison Terrace" doesn't work (Nominatim appears to 
> ignore it).
> So I could:
> 1. Select a section of New Road in front of Addison Terrace and give
> it 
> alt_name=Addison Terrace and use that in addr:street (but so far as I 
> can see Nominatim ignores that also).
> 2. Overlay a second highway called Addison Terrace over a section of
> New 
> Road. Will work with Nominatim I guess but it hardly seems good
> practice.
> 3. Create a footway called Addison Terrace in front of the houses and 
> use that (except there isn't one)
> 4. Draw the footway from New Road to each house and call each one 
> Addison Terrace & use that (!!)
> 5. There is a service road behind the houses so I could call that 
> Addison Terrace (except it isn't)
> 5. Some sort of relation rather like AssociatedStreet (is there one?)
> 
> I'm stuck...help please.
> Thanks in advance...Martin
> 
> PS There's another example just to the south, with 3 apartment blocks 
> together forming a complex called Nexus. I've fixed that temporarily
> by 
> giving the service road the name Nexus and using that.
> PPS I'll be using the JOSM Terracer plugin to create the terraces

Looking at the wiki page for the Karlsruhe schema, the house number can also contain a house name.  So, you could put "26 Addison Terrace" in as the house number, although it would look a bit messily to have an entire terrace rendered this way unless the renderer had some rules to handle repeated text.

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