[Talk-GB] Tagging building/terrace names that look like road names.

[Thomas Wood]

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On 10/16/07, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> Durham seems to have a lot of road signs on houses/walls. The road actually
> has a name of it's own, though if you were half way down it you could easily
> be mistaken for thinking the name on the house was the road name (same sort
> of metal sign, standard letters, and city sheild).
> Is anyone tagging anything like this? I feel it should not be left out.
> But if I tag the part of the road it would be silly as it may be only 4
> houses long. So then again, I don't want to exactly map every building, we
> all know that would take longer than any one wants.
>

I usually just add a node with building=terrace and name=whatever
They will be searchable from the OSM homepage, but won't get rendered.

>
> On another note, I have some existing mapped roads with double names. (see
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.77099615903269&lon=-1.571026812970334&zoom=17&layers=B0F
> then
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.77136749034824&lon=-1.5701792351052082&zoom=17&layers=0BF
> )
> And they have the tag note="FIXME previously tagged segment" (automatic from
> 0.5 upgrade?).
> So I sort of seen what's going on here, but how do I remove the duplication
> nonsense in JOSM? Bearing in mind I didn't know how to edit a segment under
> a way before, this question was bound to come up sometime.
>

Middle click on the way to show the ways under the cursor. You can
select each individual way by holding ctrl and clicking on each way as
if it were a hyperlink.

>
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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)