[Talk-GB] Tagging of roads with adjacent named terraces

[SK53]

Clearly the road is called London Road, but I presume there are 'street
signs' with the terrace name. name:left & name:right may be appropriate.
I've only tended to use them when the street itself has no name, but each
side has a name, so I don't have a firm opinion.

Naming the terraces themselves causes all sorts of problems once they get
terraced (although I think addresses in Edinburgh are predominantly on
entries/doors); so the use of addr:substreet or addr:parentstreet in the
address does not actually resolve the issue that these have signage typical
of street names, and consequently may confuse a mapper unfamiliar with this
pattern. (Note the opposite occurs, houses on a named street, which could
be a dependent street, but does not feature in the address).

Jerry

PS. I must write up official addresses on infill along one road near me:
they are a right hodge-podge with some being dependent streets and others
not.



On Sat, 7 May 2022 at 14:51, Donald Noble <drnoble at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just wondering if there is any consensus/guidance on tagging of streets
> with adjacent named buildings/terraces. There are quite a few of these in
> Scotland, and until now these have been tagged with the main name of the
> road, and name:left/name:right as appropriate for the building/terrace name.
>
> Recently a mapper has changed a couple of these so the (minor) name
> appears on the map, and they do not appear to be local. Before reverting
> this, I just wanted to reach out to the wider community.
>
> This road is called London Road, but the buildings to the north are called
> Leopold Place, see https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=932836447528898
> which shows both signs (although a bit blurry)
> GinaroZ left a note https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3087279 regarding
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/116967047
>
> Thanks for your thoughts on this,
> Cheers, Donald
>
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> Donald Noble
> http://drnoble.co.uk
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