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

[Mark Goodge]

On 07/05/2022 18:59, Donald Noble wrote:
> Peter, Ken,
> Thanks for the feedback. I completely agree with using 
> street/parentstreet for the addresses, and have tried to do this where 
> appropriate following the recent discussions on talk-gb. I will also 
> update the addresses on Leopold Place to include parentstreet=London 
> Road when I make any changes following this discussion.

You should only do that if the postal address actually contains London 
Road. I have no idea in this case whether it does (and no way to check 
other than via non-open sources), so I can't say whether you should use 
addr:parentstreet here or not. But bear in mind that - as per discussion 
here previously - addr:* tags are intended to represent the postal 
address of a property, not its physical or geographical address.

> However the question I have is more how should we tag the road? I would 
> say it is unambiguously called London Road and happens to have a set of 
> buildings on one side called Leopold Place. I think the original tagging 
> of name=London Road, name:left=Leopold Place, is correct. But is there a 
> good way to show/represent on the map more clearly that there is a set 
> of buildings called Leopold Place?
The suggested solution (which I've implemented) when I raised this issue 
a while back is to draw a landuse=residential polygon around the 
building and name that. That's possibly a bit kludgy, but it works.

Mark