[OSM-talk-ie] Row of houses with their own name

Donal Hunt donal.hunt at openstreetmap.ie
Thu Jul 15 12:35:26 UTC 2021


Another example from my local area:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/881471891

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 1:34 PM Donal Hunt <donal.hunt at openstreetmap.ie>
wrote:

> Not 100% sure there is consensus on how to map it but the topic has come
> up before (see here
> <https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/22932/terrace-names-in-streets>)
>
> Example mentioned there is: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/132932358
>
> There is also a few discussions on the topic:
>
>    - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:building%3Dterrace
>    - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:addr
>
>
> My approach would probably be to do the following:
>
>    - Map the terrace and then use the terracing tool to capture the build
>    environment
>    - Use addr:housenumber=* and addr:street=* with addr:street=* using
>    the terrace's name, not the nearest road.
>    - possibly look at some of the suggested relations mentioned in the
>    talk pages.
>    - possibly add the name of the terrace to the terrace outline (similar
>    to how you can name landuse=residential areas after the housing estate
>    name).
>
> Interested to hear thoughts from others...
>
> Donal
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 1:16 PM Mike Riney <mike.riney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A block of houses on Chapelizod Road in Islandbridge Dublin 8 at Jct of
>> South Circular have their own name - Park Place - which isn't on OSM.  I
>> know I saw examples of that in the past, but I can't remember how to
>> represent it.
>>
>> Can someone point me to an example that I can copy.
>>
>> They are not properly recorded on Google maps either, so I like to make
>> OSM
>> better than google.
>> --
>> Regards, Mike
>> mike.riney at gmail.com
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> Donal Hunt
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