[talk-au] Tagging a house name

[Stéphane Guillou]

Oh, can't believe we missed it on our way to Port Arthur!

Next time. Use the National Park south of it as an excuse.

Now that I think of it, I expect the highest densities of named houses 
to be along the coast. Back in France, in the beach town we'd spend some 
of our summers in, most houses would have a name. And on Minjerribah, 
most houses in Mooloomba / Point Lookout would have a name. Might have 
to do with if they are available for rent or not.

Cheers

On 6/2/22 21:50, Warin wrote:
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> On 6/2/22 00:23, Stéphane Guillou via Talk-au wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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!
>>
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> Do town is for you!
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo_Town
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> 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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