[Talk-GB] Street-name toids

[Mark Goodge]

On 12/08/2020 16:54, SK53 wrote:
> OpenRoads from the Ordnance Survey contains a field containing the toid 
> for the street name. I wonder if we should include these alongside usrn 
> & uprn. They may be more useful than either for gathering complex roads 
> which share a name.
> 
> Experimentally I have added this 
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/836343813> toid to a street in Glossop.

I think adding toids is worth it, if we can unambiguously link them.

However, I'm a little concerned that someone has added a UPRN to that 
way. UPRNs are not, generally, applied to streets, and looking at the 
ESRI satellite view I suspect that that's actually a legacy UPRN which 
applied to the property before it was redeveloped for housing.

The street does have a USRN, which is 17326392. If you compare this:

https://uprn.uk/usrn/17326392

which is Foundry Close, with this:

https://uprn.uk/usrn/17301086

which is Surrey Street (that Foundry Close connects to), you'll see on 
the latter a single UPRN on top of Foundry Close. But switch to the 
satellite view on that page and you'll see that it's appears to be the 
UPRN of what was, at the time the image was taken, some empty land that 
had been cleared for redevelopment.

Mark