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

[Tom Crocker]

On Sat, 7 May 2022, 19:54 Mark Goodge, <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:

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> On 07/05/2022 18:59, Donald Noble wrote:
> > 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.
>
Although a bit kludgy, I think this is a better solution than naming the
pavement - no doubt exceptions exist. I've started adding (or using alone)
place=building_complex for these terraces, other groups of houses, small
industrial estates, etc. To me this feels better than the landuse key and
works with multiple landuses. It's roughly somewhere between a plot and a
city_block. I'd appreciate feedback on whether there could be a better tag
name than building_complex.

As for name and name:left, my instinct was that name:side was for when
there was no main name but I'm not sure.

Tom

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