[talk-au] Tagging a house name

[Warin]

On 4/2/22 19:48, Dian Ågesson wrote:
>
> Genuine question:
>
> If I go to Officeworks and get a sign printed with the name "Bob" and 
> put it on my letterbox, does that become the name of my house?
>

Traditionally the name went on the house.

The post man delivered the letters to the householder, there was no 
letter box. This was in a time before phones, letters were the main form 
of communication .. in populated areas letter delivery could take place 
twice a day.

>
> On 2022-02-04 06:31, Warin wrote:
>
>>
>> On 4/2/22 17:25, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
>>> I've always listed the name of units & so on just as name=*.
>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>> No longer used as the address, used 2 centuries ago.
>>
>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Graeme
>>>
>>> On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 at 16:14, Mat Attlee <mattattlee at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:mattattlee at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Whilst I was out surveying today I stumbled upon a building that
>>>     had a street number but also a house name, as just above the
>>>     entrance and door number it said Rivenhall. Now the question is
>>>     should this be tagged as the name or addr:housename? I know the
>>>     latter is common in the UK though I couldn't find anything about
>>>     best practice in Australia.
>>>
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