[Talk-GB] UK street addressing

[ipswichmapper at tutanota.com]

Tag the houses with addr:place maybe?

Or, better method is to use the alternative terrace taggong scheme where each house is tagged as building:part=house within a larger building=terrace.  (Terracer plugin lets you do this if you check "keep outline way")

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20 Dec 2020, 15:50 by aamackie at gmail.com:

> I'm also unclear how to tag numbered houses in named terraces. 
>
> addr:housename doesn't seem appropriate if they are shared along an entire row and addr:street already has a value.
>
> I've also run into this for blocks of flats. "Block B" doesn't seem like a housename either? The addr:block tags seems to be for named city blocks.
>
> Do we have some sort of local grouping tag?
>
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 10:32, ndrw <> ndrw6 at redhazel.co.uk> > wrote:
>
>> On 20/12/2020 12:45, Dave Abbott wrote:
>>  > There is a page at 
>>  > >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/UK_Address_Mapping>>  
>>  > which mentions "suggested tags" but there is no evidence that this is 
>>  > in use. If correct I would be tagging as -
>>  >
>>  > addr:housenumber=99
>>  > addr:street=Postal Street
>>  > addr:town=Smalltown
>>  > addr:city=Largertown
>>  >
>>  This is correct, although there is no consensus wrt to the tag used for 
>>  Smalltown. I'm using one of addr:villlage|suburb|town myself. There was 
>>  a proposal to switch to addr:locality only, which I argued against in 
>>  the past, but it would indeed match RM addressing better and often 
>>  classification of the locality is unclear.
>>  
>>  This is not the only problem with RM<->OSM address tagging. RM defines 
>>  following address structure:
>>  
>>  Dependent thoroughfare
>>          addr:place (?)
>>  Thoroughfare
>>          addr:street
>>  Double dependent locality
>>          addr:hamlet|district (?)
>>  Dependent locality
>>          addr:town|village|suburb|locality (?)
>>  Post Town
>>          addr:city
>>  Postcode
>>          addr:postcode
>>  
>>  
>>  This often becomes an issue when mapping business parks, 
>>  hospital/university campuses etc.
>>  
>>  ndrw6
>>  
>>  
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