[Tagging] Reviewing the use of addr:housename

[Fernando Trebien]

Reading from the wiki: "This is sometimes used in some countries like
England instead of [1] (or in addition to [2]) a house number."

>From that, I originally understood that one would use housename:
[1] when a house number does not apply (when houses are identified by
names/non-numeric codes, not by pure numbers)
[2] as a generic field for additional addressing information (mostly
as a substitute to addr:door and addr:unit, which never really took
off despite being approved for 3 years now; this interpretation may be
incorrect though)

However, if you have a building (even building=house) with a name, you
would have building=*+name=[building name], right?

In Brazil some people have suggested that one would use addr:housename
for a building's name when the element which is a building is also an
amenity (e.g. building=yes+amenity=police), in which case the name tag
would refer to the amenity, not to the building. I don't think this is
the intended usage of name and addr:housename, but let me know if I'm
wrong.

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Andrew Hain
<andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> The uses of the tag addr:housename in the database[1] does not match
> documentation[2] well. A high prroportion of uses are accidental; there were
> some bug reports[3][4] against iD, which used to have a housename box at the
> beginning of every point for entering addresses, pointing out doubtful use
> by new mappers. The top 100 values of the tag tell their own story.
>
> --
> Andrew
>
> [1] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Ahousename#values
> [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr
> [3] https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/1525
> [4] https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2124
>
> Bloc                       1 265
> (empty string)             531
> 1                          472
> bloc                       385
> 2                          379
> 3                          373
> 4                          335
> 5                          293
> 6                          279
> 7                          269
> 9                          263
> 8                          258
> 10                         240
> 12                         224
> 11                         211
> edificio                   209
> Mairie                     206
> 16                         202
> 15                         192
> 14                         189
> 18                         189
> s/n                        184
> Edificio                   179
> Heidehaus                  168
> San Antonio II             164
> 17                         164
> Taman Cantek               159
> Rathaus                    159
> 20                         155
> 19                         152
> 13                         146
> casă                       146
> 22                         143
> 21                         139
> Berg Studentby             138
> 25                         136
> 26                         135
> 23                         132
> Rose Cottage               130
> 24                         129
> A                          124
> 28                         122
> Taman Ridgeview Phase 12   121
> The Cottage                121
> 27                         118
> The Lodge                  116
> B                          111
> 31                         103
> 29                         100
> 32                         99
> 30                         98
> C                          98
> Pfarrhaus                  96
> Garages                    95
> Arcaden                    94
> Haus 1                     94
> 33                         91
> Nöhren Hof                 89
> The Bungalow               88
> 36                         88
> Edificio␣                  88
> Haus 2                     88
> Vestergård                 87
> Casă                       86
> Lidl                       84
> 34                         84
> 35                         84
> D                          84
> Østergård                  83
> 40                         80
> 38                         77
> Ældrecentret Kærgården     77
> Магазин                    76
> C.C. Condado Shopping      75
> 37                         74
> CSI Warehouse              73
> Bahnhof                    73
> 42                         71
> 44                         71
> Березники                  71
> 39                         70
> 45                         70
> The Coach House            70
> 41                         69
> Stevnshøj                  69
> Gemeindehaus               68
> E                          68
> McDonald's                 68
> Golden Haven Memorial Park 66
> Gemeindeamt                65
> Unit 1                     65
> 43                         64
> Højgård                    64
> The Vicarage               63
> Makado                     63
> 46                         62
> Top Center                 62
> Netto                      62
> Møllebækkollegiet          61
> Garage                     61
>
>
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