G'day James & welcome! Personally, I've always gone with either #3, with the address node at the driveway, or drawn the building & added the address details to that.
Either way seems to work, in the they render, & also appear in an address search (at least on OSMand!) Good luck & have fun! Thanks Graeme On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 21:47, James Cridland <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, folks - first time poster here, and (while I first edited OSM a > while ago) this my first time doing a lot of work in it to make it nicer. > > I'm adding the buildings around where I live. They're all individual > buildings, mainly houses. In my part of Australia we've address points, > which come from the local council. They're in the middle of the lot - not > necessarily in the middle of the building on the lot. > > Should I be: > 1. Adding the building outlines and moving the address points to the > centre of the building? > 2. Adding the building outlines and dropping the address point onto the > outline, so they're merged? > 3. Adding the building outlines and dropping the address point onto the > outline at the entrance, so they're merged? > 4. What the hell are you doing James, don't touch the address points? > > Looking at the renderer: if I do #3, that moves the street number to the > entrance of the property, which is quite helpful, especially for a building > on a corner. > > -- > Tel/SMS/Signal/WhatsApp: +61 447 692743 > Podnews <https://podnews.net/> · My radio trends newsletter > <https://james.crid.land/> · Speaking and consultancy > <https://james.cridland.net/> > Amazingly Brilliant Pty Ltd · ABN 30 612 913 514 > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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