[Talk-GB] Terraced Houses Mapping - JOSM and iD

[Tom Crocker]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 21:30, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> The key thing is the addr:* bit, rather than the *:street.
>
> In parts of the UK, terraces of houses were named before the associated
> street (I wrote something mainly about those in Wales) and the relevant
> name is still an essential part of the address. The Royal Mail sometimes
> makes such names "dependent streets" which is the opposite of Peter's
> suggestion (but functionally much the same). For the user unfamiliar with
> the place a name indicating a street rather than a building probably
> reflects reality rather better. In principle the addressing of named
> terraces parallel to the main street is no different from that of those
> perpendicular to it; in the latter case we can salve our conscience by
> adding the name to the footway providing access to the properties.
> Functionally they are also close to those awkward streets with different
> names on each side (in Nottingham: Cheapside/Poultry, Long Row/Smithy Row
> and Long Row West/Angel Row).
>
> For your second case: addr:flats=12 addr:housename=Nelson Mandela House
> (assuming that 12 is not part of the regular numbering on the street). This
> is again an example of dependent parts of an address (the flats), to a main
> part (the building name). These occur at each level of typical UK addresses
> (<delivery point> Flat 12, Nelson Mandela House; ,<street> Allenfield
> Court, Park Road (one I saw yesterday, a group of houses not flats);
> <locality, post town> Radford, Chipping Norton) although they are not
> needed in most addresses.
>

Thanks Jerry and Peter

In this case the Terrace came after the road name but I can see the point
that it's better to have a working address than one that doesn't. So I'll
stop getting hung up on the meaning of street and wishing there were more
ways addresses could be formed :)

Tom
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