[Talk-GB] Non-intuitive addresses

[Mark Goodge]

On 12/02/2022 17:21, Colin Smale wrote:
>> On 02/12/2022 5:44 PM Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> In this particular case, Abbots Walk is not a substreet or, in
>> Royal Mail terms, a dependent thoroughfare. It *is* the street name
>> (or, in RM terms, thoroughfare) in the address, despite the fact
>> that the houses actually face onto a street with a different name.
>> 
> The postal addresses of these premises (1-4 Abbots Walk, and 1-2
> Ferry Cottages, Abbots Walk) are pretty clear to me as they are to
> RM. Other types of address label these properties differently, but if
> we stick to the paradigm that "addr:* is for *postal* addresses, why
> the discussion? Or are we making life difficult by creating
> exceptions and special cases?

In this particular case, I don't think there is any real difficulty as 
far as the building addresses are concerned. It's the name of the street 
which is the issue here, and, since there is an open data source for the 
correct name, I don't see any problem with changing it in OSM. My real 
concern here is how best to ensure that the ensuing mismatch between 
postal address and street name is not wrongly interpreted as an error, 
and reverted back to the wrong name by someone who mistakenly thinks 
they are fixing it. Plus, there's the secondary question of how to map 
the name of the block, which is about labelling rather than addressing. 
But, again, that's not really a major problem.

I'm more concerned about the Huxleys Way addresses, where I know that 
they are currently wrongly tagged but I have no open data or 
on-the-ground source to cite in support of any changes I make. That's 
why I'm interested in how other mappers have dealt with the same problem 
when they've encountered it elsewhere.

Mark