[talk-au] Blocks of land - residential housing

[Richard Weait]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Leathal <leathal73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was just wondering what the tagging standard is for residential housing in
> suburbs?
>
> I can't find anything definitive, and most of the common methods such as
> landuse=residential is set aside for large scale areas (which is correct IMO).
>
> So, I was just wondering if there is some kind of standard that everyone is
> using? Or if anyone is using at all?
>
> I just don't like this method of numbers only:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-19.295319&lon=146.71811&zoom=18&layers=M

I can't point to standards, but I can offer my preferences.

I like the address numbers, but I'd prefer that they were on the
building outlines.  Also, the addr:housenumber should also have
addr:street, iirc.

I'm not a fan of mapping "property lines" as shown in the untagged
ways in that area, for reasons that have been discussed amply on talk@
and talk-us at .  To summarize; we can't know or guess where the property
line is, in many jurisdictions there will be a set back from physical
objects that we can see like the road or fence.