[Talk-GB] Non-intuitive addresses

[Colin Smale]

> On 02/12/2022 8:29 PM Tom Crocker <tomcrockermail at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, 17:34 Paul Berry, <pmberry2007 at gmail.com mailto: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.
> 
This sounds like "tagging for the renderer"... And addr:place in particular was rather frowned upon in the discussion in December 2020...

> Cheers
> Tom
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