[Talk-GB] Envelopes map

[Rob Nickerson]

Hi Ed,

On addr:terrace, yes some members of the UK OpenStreetMap community have
suggested avoiding this tag. The tag can be considered as one that captures
a child element on addresses with a parent+child type relationship. As the
child feature is not always a terrace building, rather than having a load
of feature specific child tags, some have suggested feature agnostic tags.

If you read over the messages then you'll see some mixed opinions here.
Either we have a load of feature specific tags (addr:terrace, addr:village,
addr:town, addr:apartments, addr:suite, addr:maisonette; the list could go
on and on) or we try our best to use the global tags even if they don't
always feel like they match how we read the words (e.g. addr:city might be
used on things that are towns rather than cities).

As per my 9th January email, I feel that we might have too big a hill to
climb to get addr:place back in to a state that it is reliably used by all
data users. As such I have suggested addr:substreet but am trying to help
with the cleanup of addr:place, hence this Envelopes Map and the Cleanup
thread of emails.

Best wishes
*Rob*


On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 17:04, Ed Loach <edloach at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rob wrote:
>
> > As it stands now it also does not use addr:substreet. In effect I am
> rendering option 4 in my 9th January email,
> > doing so to highlight the QA issues where addr:place has been
> incorrectly used.
>
> So just to check, we're now using addr:place instead of addr:terrace?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ed
>
>
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