I used to use addr:housename heavily to tag any building name,
especially houses and apartment blocks, but I tend to just use the
"name" key now when tagging residential buildings, maybe just because
it's more readily available in the presets...
I like the idea of "addr:housename" being specifically about the
/building/ itself though. Others think that it should be used /only /if
it is commonly used in the postal address of the place. As you can see,
it has been debated for more than a decade:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:addr#addr:housename_vs._name
I do think that they could be both used on the same feature sometimes:
some buildings have a specific, historical name (which might be engraved
in stone, or shown on a small plaque) but are known as something
different because of what they currently house (a business, a
museum...). The latter would be the more obvious name, often with a
bigger, more recent sign on the facade or at the top, and I would
therefore tag it with the "name" key, which gets prioritised by most
renderers.
I actually enjoy mapping that kind of information a lot, I find it
culturally very interesting and always wonder where the name came from.
And whenever I see a name that is not in OSM, I get a bit excited. I had
some fun with making a map of building names in the Kurilpa peninsula a
while ago:
https://web.library.uq.edu.au/files/125535/Water_themed_building_names.pdf
For that map, when I processed the data, I prioritised addr:housename
values over name values because I was interested in building names and
wanted to remove potential business names.
And I reckon everyone should name their home if they feel like it!
Cheers
On 5/2/22 20:29, Andrew Davidson wrote:
On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 9:55 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick<[email protected]> wrote:
Interesting photo of one house in that article:
https://www.houzz.com.au/photos/summerlees-a-living-piece-of-australian-history-traditional-garden-sydney-phvw-vp~7570749
Address out the front is 219 over 7207?
Never seen an Aussie numbering scheme like that before?
219 was probably the old number before they introduced the new rural
addressing system in NSW. Later photos only have the new number:
https://goo.gl/maps/abXKsz9oRohAk4nZ9
and a different spelling....
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