[Talk-GB] Non-intuitive addresses

[Mark Goodge]

On 14/02/2022 11:50, ndrw6 wrote:
> On 12/02/2022 17:48, Mark Goodge wrote:
>>
>> 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,
> 
> 
> Are you sure there is no footpath with this name in the area? This is 
> exactly what I've seen in:
> 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/613731676
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/660816429
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/709592790
> 
> The first one is a gated footpath and houses "along it" are facing a 
> street on the opposite side. This being a new build, all footpaths are 
> properly signed.

In this case, the name Abbots Walk has been assigned to the pedestrian 
access path behind the building. So in one sense it's equivalent to 
those. But the problem here is that there's no nameplate on the path, 
and it doesn't appear in OS open data. So the only sources are the NSG 
and OS Mastermap, which we can't use because they're not open.

>> I'm more concerned about the Huxleys Way addresses, where I know that 
>> they are currently wrongly tagged
> 
> This looks like a simple address tagging error. It needs a survey but it 
> looks like a fairly straightforward case.

Again, the problem is that a survey won't help. I walk past these houses 
regularly. There is absolutely nothing, on the ground, to indicate that 
they are part of Huxleys Way rather than Boat Lane. The only documented 
sources of the correct addresses are non-open.

There is a complicated and roundabout way to infer from open data 
sources that these addresses are probably part of Huxleys Way. That is, 
take the coordinates of the street from the Open USRN database, match 
those up with OS OpenRoads, then look up the name in OS OpenNames (which 
gives us Huxleys Way), then find all the UPRNs which are associated with 
that USRN in OS Open Linked Identifiers, check their coordinates in OS 
Open UPRN and note that this includes a set of houses that, visually, 
appear to be on Boat Lane. But that's not 100% reliable, and there's no 
simple way of doing that with any of the OSM editing tools, at least as 
far as I'm aware.

Mark