[talk-au] Tagging a house name

[Stéphane Guillou]

I used to use addr:housename heavily to tag any building name, 
especially houses and apartment blocks, but I tend to just use the 
"name" key now when tagging residential buildings, maybe just because 
it's more readily available in the presets...

I like the idea of "addr:housename" being specifically about the 
/building/ itself though. Others think that it should be used /only /if 
it is commonly used in the postal address of the place. As you can see, 
it has been debated for more than a decade: 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:addr#addr:housename_vs._name

I do think that they could be both used on the same feature sometimes: 
some buildings have a specific, historical name (which might be engraved 
in stone, or shown on a small plaque) but are known as something 
different because of what they currently house (a business, a 
museum...). The latter would be the more obvious name, often with a 
bigger, more recent sign on the facade or at the top, and I would 
therefore tag it with the "name" key, which gets prioritised by most 
renderers.

I actually enjoy mapping that kind of information a lot, I find it 
culturally very interesting and always wonder where the name came from. 
And whenever I see a name that is not in OSM, I get a bit excited. I had 
some fun with making a map of building names in the Kurilpa peninsula a 
while ago: 
https://web.library.uq.edu.au/files/125535/Water_themed_building_names.pdf

For that map, when I processed the data, I prioritised addr:housename 
values over name values because I was interested in building names and 
wanted to remove potential business names.

And I reckon everyone should name their home if they feel like it!

Cheers

On 5/2/22 20:29, Andrew Davidson wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 9:55 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick<graemefitz1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Interesting photo of one house in that article:
>> https://www.houzz.com.au/photos/summerlees-a-living-piece-of-australian-history-traditional-garden-sydney-phvw-vp~7570749
>>
>> Address out the front is 219 over 7207?
>>
>> Never seen an Aussie numbering scheme like that before?
>>
> 219 was probably the old number before they introduced the new rural
> addressing system in NSW. Later photos only have the new number:
>
> https://goo.gl/maps/abXKsz9oRohAk4nZ9
>
> and a different spelling....
>
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