I think there's an excellent point which is being danced around, which is that there's a conflation between a building's name and the addr:housename.
Perhaps there's a call for a building name tag which may or may not be the addr:housename tag? - Serge On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Fernando Trebien <[email protected]> wrote: > Reading from the wiki: "This is sometimes used in some countries like > England instead of [1] (or in addition to [2]) a house number." > > From that, I originally understood that one would use housename: > [1] when a house number does not apply (when houses are identified by > names/non-numeric codes, not by pure numbers) > [2] as a generic field for additional addressing information (mostly > as a substitute to addr:door and addr:unit, which never really took > off despite being approved for 3 years now; this interpretation may be > incorrect though) > > However, if you have a building (even building=house) with a name, you > would have building=*+name=[building name], right? > > In Brazil some people have suggested that one would use addr:housename > for a building's name when the element which is a building is also an > amenity (e.g. building=yes+amenity=police), in which case the name tag > would refer to the amenity, not to the building. I don't think this is > the intended usage of name and addr:housename, but let me know if I'm > wrong. > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Andrew Hain > <[email protected]> wrote: >> The uses of the tag addr:housename in the database[1] does not match >> documentation[2] well. A high prroportion of uses are accidental; there were >> some bug reports[3][4] against iD, which used to have a housename box at the >> beginning of every point for entering addresses, pointing out doubtful use >> by new mappers. The top 100 values of the tag tell their own story. >> >> -- >> Andrew >> >> [1] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Ahousename#values >> [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr >> [3] https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/1525 >> [4] https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2124 >> >> Bloc 1 265 >> (empty string) 531 >> 1 472 >> bloc 385 >> 2 379 >> 3 373 >> 4 335 >> 5 293 >> 6 279 >> 7 269 >> 9 263 >> 8 258 >> 10 240 >> 12 224 >> 11 211 >> edificio 209 >> Mairie 206 >> 16 202 >> 15 192 >> 14 189 >> 18 189 >> s/n 184 >> Edificio 179 >> Heidehaus 168 >> San Antonio II 164 >> 17 164 >> Taman Cantek 159 >> Rathaus 159 >> 20 155 >> 19 152 >> 13 146 >> casă 146 >> 22 143 >> 21 139 >> Berg Studentby 138 >> 25 136 >> 26 135 >> 23 132 >> Rose Cottage 130 >> 24 129 >> A 124 >> 28 122 >> Taman Ridgeview Phase 12 121 >> The Cottage 121 >> 27 118 >> The Lodge 116 >> B 111 >> 31 103 >> 29 100 >> 32 99 >> 30 98 >> C 98 >> Pfarrhaus 96 >> Garages 95 >> Arcaden 94 >> Haus 1 94 >> 33 91 >> Nöhren Hof 89 >> The Bungalow 88 >> 36 88 >> Edificio␣ 88 >> Haus 2 88 >> Vestergård 87 >> Casă 86 >> Lidl 84 >> 34 84 >> 35 84 >> D 84 >> Østergård 83 >> 40 80 >> 38 77 >> Ældrecentret Kærgården 77 >> Магазин 76 >> C.C. Condado Shopping 75 >> 37 74 >> CSI Warehouse 73 >> Bahnhof 73 >> 42 71 >> 44 71 >> Березники 71 >> 39 70 >> 45 70 >> The Coach House 70 >> 41 69 >> Stevnshøj 69 >> Gemeindehaus 68 >> E 68 >> McDonald's 68 >> Golden Haven Memorial Park 66 >> Gemeindeamt 65 >> Unit 1 65 >> 43 64 >> Højgård 64 >> The Vicarage 63 >> Makado 63 >> 46 62 >> Top Center 62 >> Netto 62 >> Møllebækkollegiet 61 >> Garage 61 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > -- > Fernando Trebien > +55 (51) 9962-5409 > > "Nullius in verba." > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
