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

[Andrew Hain]

One stretch of the A316 in London is signed Lower Richmond Road on one carriageway and Popham Gardens on the other, with corresponding house numbers on each side.

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From: SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com>
Sent: 07 May 2022 16:33
To: Donald Noble <drnoble at gmail.com>
Cc: Talk GB <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>; talk-scotland at openstreetmap.org <talk-scotland at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of roads with adjacent named terraces

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<mailto: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
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