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

[Donald Noble]

I meant to add in my original email that it might be a solution
(workaround?) to add the pavement* and tag that with the name of the
adjacent building. I know this is not necessarily correct, but given there
is a street sign on the building at either end of the pavement with the
name Leopold Place, this might also stop people changing the tagging of the
main road from London Road. I don't think this is just "tagging for the
renderer", but tell me if you think otherwise.

* note that there are already quite a few pavements maped in Edinburgh
already, particularly on major streets like this, or Leith Walk which has
similar issues.

Responding to Jerry, yes most of the addresses in Edinburgh are mapped as
nodes, but the buildings are also split into closes (apartments) within the
terrace, so that also prevents naming the whole terrace as a building.

Cheers, Donald


On Sat, 7 May 2022 at 16:33, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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