[Talk-GB] Non-intuitive addresses

[Tom Crocker]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, 17:34 Paul Berry, <pmberry2007 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> I'd map that as:
>
> addr:street=Abbots Walk
> addr:parentstreet=Boat Lane
>
> I'm not hung up on Abbots Walk being a building rather than a street.
> We're fitting addressing to the best available tags, not the other
> way around.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>

Hi Paul

For what it's worth, I'm inclined to agree that having only one tag would
be ideal. The reason I'd go with addr:place is various tools like nominatim
won't use the address if addr:street doesn't match a highway. So we'll tag
it but it won't show up in search results, which seems a bit self-defeating.

Cheers
Tom
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