On 6/2/22 00:23, Stéphane Guillou via Talk-au wrote:
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!
Do town is for you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo_Town
Unfortunately these are not mapped in OSM, I have put in the building
footprints, but the names are not available .. tastrax mapillary is
pointed forwards so the names don't show up there ..
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