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

Donald Noble drnoble at gmail.com
Sat May 7 16:48:07 UTC 2022


Thanks for the opinion Robert, good to hear your thoughts. The question is
what would you tag? There is not a single outline, but rather 9 separate
buildings that together make up Leopold Place, plus there are 18 address
nodes too. Combining these into a single item would lose detail, and the
wiki page on buildings explicitly suggests mapping each house in a
terrace. Naming each building separately also seems wrong. Perhaps a
surrounding landuse=residential area?

Cheers, Donald

On Sat, 7 May 2022 at 17:13, Robert Weetman <robert.wtman.88 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not sure if it helps to add this kind of response, but I'm going to
> anyway...
>
> It feels instinctively to me to be that the obvious tagging should be with
> Leopold Place as a building name. I imagine this causing issues with actual
> maps, but we're going to face this issue anyway. And we should fall back on
> the rule about not tagging for any particular rendering.
>
> I guess there's no harm in the addr:substreet addition too.
>
> Just my twopennethworth as they say.
>
> Robert
>
>
> On Sat, 7 May 2022, 16:31 Donald Noble, <drnoble at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Alan,
>> As I understood addr:substreet was more in conjunction with address nodes
>> on buildings, not tagging the road ways, as this loses the spatial
>> placement and doesn't work when both sides of a road have different names
>> buildings/terraces. I suppose we could go with addr:substreet:left and
>> :right, but I am not sure this is helpful.
>>
>> Donald
>>
>> On Sat, 7 May 2022 at 16:03, Alan Mackie <aamackie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think in recent discussions the preference was for these addresses to
>>> be tagged `addr:substreet`, as in a level of addressing "below" street
>>> level in the hierarchy. The building names themselves can also be applied
>>> to the buildings with the usual tags.
>>>
>>> Sorry for the double response, forgot to reply all.
>>>
>>> On Sat, 7 May 2022, 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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>>
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