[talk-au] Tagging a house name

[Warin]

On 6/2/22 00:23, Stéphane Guillou via Talk-au wrote:
>
> 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!
>

Do town is for you!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo_Town


Unfortunately these are not mapped in OSM, I have put in the building 
footprints, but the names are not available .. tastrax mapillary is 
pointed forwards so the names don't show up there ..
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