[talk-au] How to properly add address tags when multiple buildings share a housenumber?

[Peter Hardy]

Hey folks.
I'm just getting started contributing to OpenStreetMap, adding address information for my local area. I've just started working in an area with heavy residential subdivision; blocks being split with several freestanding dwellings. There's a fairly pathological example at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/-33.28505/149.08483 , but there's a lot of smaller subdivisions around it.

The wiki at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses#Multiple_buildings_for_one_housenumber suggests adding a perimeter and addr tags to it. And a little further digging around I found https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dresidential#Apartment_Complexes , which suggests `landuse=residential` is appropriate for this sort of use. So I created an area around the property boundary based on the NSW DCS Base Map, added `landuse=residential`, then appropriate `addr:housenumber` and `addr:street` tags.

JOSM renders this how I'd expect, with an outline around the area and the housenumber displayed in the middle of the area. But the map tiles I see on opnstreeetmap.org only show the outline of the area, and do not display a housenumber.

Is this the right approach for doing this? Am I just missing something stupid to get this to work, or should I drop this plan and just stick to numbering the building closest to the street?

Thanks for any advice,
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Peter
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