[Talk-GB] Street-name toids

[SK53]

That was me too, I would have added the USRN if I'd had it immediately
accessible. My understanding is that UPRNs do apply to roads, but have much
to learn about them. I've added them to a couple of others at Cinderhill
which is housing built on open fields so no historical properties there.

Jerry

On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 20:37, Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
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