[Talk-GB] OSM UK address project: tags - Updated guidance

[Rick Bowlby]

 Hello Rob/all, I've been following (or trying to follow!) this thread with
interest, as a lot of my local mapping effort has included the addressing
of delivery points (which I can make practical use of).

Could you clarify (or maybe cite) the statement "The definition in the wiki
is that 'unit' is for a single address whilst 'flats' is for multiple (e.g.
1-6)"? The Key:addr:flats
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:flats> wiki page says "If
there is only one flat, the tag addr:unit
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:unit>=* is normally used in
USA instead." This seems more of an observation than a direction and in any
case is not applicable to the UK.

My own opinion FWIW is that I would prefer the same tag for both individual
and multiple cases, if they describe the same 'thing'. If they don't, then
we should first clearly disambiguate 'unit' and 'flat' before advocating
the changing of current tags. I'd be interested to know what others think.

Rick

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 at 13:09, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Happy new year to all :-)
>
> Thank you for all the comments received in regards to the addr:* tags and
> how to apply them to map addresses in the United Kingdom. I shared some
> thoughts on how to resolve the comments at the time (e.g. my 22 December
> email [1]). This email is just to confirm that I have now found the time to
> make all the updates to the wiki page. You can view the updated page at:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses_in_the_United_Kingdom
>
> I will keep an eye on the replies here and on the wiki Discussion page so
> feel free to post to either place should you have feedback.
>
> Thank you,
> *Rob*
>
> [1]
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2021-December/028267.html
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