Chris Morley wrote: > Mark Williams wrote: >> I have an interesting layout; >> >> M >> A FLATS >> I-STREET- >> N FLATS | >> --STREET- >> R FLATS >> O-STREET >> A >> D >> >> Where the _flats_ are named but the streets (highway=service, I feel) >> are not. In blocks of 3 x 8 flats with parking between road & flats. >> Additionally the streets are marked private & the main road is one-way :) >> >> The entrances are set alternately, so you gain access to 1-8 & 17-24 on >> one side of the building, but 9-16 on the other. >> >> This means that the streets are eg Meresmans on one side, but Waymans on >> the other. Sort of like terraced houses, but not. The post office >> address these including both names, yielding >> number/block/road/village/post-town/county addresses ! >> >> I presume I could just put in a block & name it, or a linear feature, >> but it won't work for navigation, or I could name the service roads & >> call them residential with left / right tags; what would others do? >> > I would draw and name the flats as buildings. In your case you could > even reuse the nodes of the main road and service roads. For > free-standing blocks, placement and sizing are difficult without high > resolution arial photography, but a guess (with a note so it can be > corrected when better information is available) is better than nothing. > > The numbering is beyond what recorded in much of the database and > certainly beyond what is currently rendered and I'm not sure that there > is a consensus on how to record it. However, with the blocks on the map > and even without numbering information, it is much easier to understand > notices like Waymans 9-16 which commonly appear at the junction of the > service roads with the main road. > > Chris > > Any ideas on tags that show; map features seems reticent! It is within Yahoo coverage so I can do this.
Obviously name=xxx, but I can't see a building tag other than landuse=residential, which is fairly useless as this is within a large area of the same... I suppose I could just tuck that past them, & interleave with parking, but it feels weak. Military=barracks is tempting ;] Mark _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
