[Talk-GB] Non-intuitive addresses

[Colin Smale]

> On 02/14/2022 9:49 AM Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
> 
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> Another reason for preferring addr:block at building/campus level is 
> that, unlike addr:place, there are cases where it would be appropriate 
> to combine it with addr:street. Although the Abbots Walk case that 
> prompted this discussion doesn't have any other highway element in the 
> postal address, there are places which do. Take, for example, this one:
> 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/979468902
> 
> This is another example of a postal address where the lowest level of 
> the address is a building rather than a highway. But, in this case, the 
> official postal address also includes the highway:
> 
> 2 Great Moreton Terrace
> New Road
> Ackers Crossing
> Moreton
> Congleton
> CW12 3BP
> 

Rule of thumb if you don't have space in your database or label for two "streets" is to prefer the most specific one and omit the "parent street". The resulting address is sufficiently unique to allow cross-checking with the postcode.

That would suggest this possibility:

addr:housenumber=2
addr:street=Great Moreton Terrace
addr:parentstreet=New Road

Any software unaware of "addr:parentstreet" would just use "addr:street" which would give a result that is "good enough."