[Tagging] Tagging buildings

[Peteris Krisjanis]

2010/4/26 Alexander Sidorov <alexidsa at gmail.com>:
> Hello!
>
> I am writing an application that queries OSM buildings. Please tell me what
> is the common way of tagging buildings. Do they usually have names (I'm
> talking about usual buildings, not places of interest)? What does usually
> name contain: addr:housenumber, addr:housename, etc. or some combination?
>

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Addresses

I usually add addr:housenumber, addr:street (because otherwise
Nominatim and other parsers don't find address properly, you have to
connect house to the street). There are another way to use relation,
which I haven't started yet to do, but I plan to.

If you add addr:*, it is enough so it can be found in openstreetmap.org search.

Cheers,
Peter.