[OSM-talk] Tagging buildings (was index of names)

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 5/2/07, Mike Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:
> Thanks for your comments, Rob. I'd missed the proposal and have now added some comments there.  I take your point that have both linear and area ways with the same tag may complicate things for rendering.  Does anyone have any other suggestion or comment?   Here where I am currently mapping in Yorkshire, UK, there are many instances of terraced houses bearing an address in addition to the street they are on, for example "Peel Terrace, Ilkley Road".  I want to capture the name and location for search purposes even if it is not map rendered.  It is very easy to determine where the terrace starts and finishes, hence the use of a linear way.  I'm a bit loathe to use an area since the depth of the terrace would normally just be a guess.

Offhand I'd pick one on the other name-type tags, say loc_name or some
such. And if you're not capturing the entire shape anyway, perhaps
tagging a node would be the easiest?

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/