[Talk-GB] Errors in Street Names in Addresses

[Lester Caine]

On 31/01/18 09:07, Mark Goodge wrote:
> On 27/01/2018 20:09, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> 
>> Secondly, some addresses contain two street names, a main
>> street and a so-called "dependent street". Apart from the historic
>> anomalies, a single postcode should only cover one main street, but
>> can include more than one dependent street.
> 
> These are actually quite common, and having had a look at the error list 
> for my local area nearly all of them are due to this - the address is on 
>   secondary street accessed from the main street with which it shares a 
> postcode. Here's one, for example:
> 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/304095650
> 
>> (The tool will not see the
>> dependent streets as different if both streets are tagged, either as
>> addr:substreet and addr:street or as addr:street and
>> addr:parentstreet.) 
> 
> Which is the more correct usage here? Do we
> 
> a) tag the dependent street as the addr:street, and the main street as 
> addr:parentstreet, or should we
> 
> b) (following Royal Mail practice as found in the PAF), tag the 
> dependent street as a addr:substreet and the main street as addr:street?
> 
> My personal preference would be the latter, it's not only consistent 
> with official addressing practice but it's also how most people perceive 
> these kind of addresses as well. But, on the other hand, most map 
> editors are likely to use addr:street for the dependent street, simply 
> because the editor UI doesn't make it obvious that addr:substreet is a 
> possibility. So it might be simpler to fix these by adding 
> addr:parentstreet as necessary rather than trying to get everything 
> pedantically correct.

I've the same problem on a number of cases and certainly 
addr:parentstreet is just wrong ... the sub street is actually part of 
the house detail rather than the street, so similar to 'Flat 1 Block of 
Flats' ' Street' but this still leaves the 'addr:street' or 
'postal_code' question for the tag on the primary street. Having SOME of 
these tagged 'addr:parentstreet' is simply wrong ...

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