On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:11:39 +0000 Will Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:
> My understanding has always been that addr:place is similar to > addr:street, except when the unit in question isn't a street but some > other grouping of addresses such as a business park, retail park or > shopping centre, which serves a similar function to a street in the > address. So far I've been tagging addresses like this: addr:housename = Enterprise House addr:site = The Business Park addr:street = High Street addr:place = Locality addr:city = Posttown addr:postcode = AB12 3CD addr:country = GB > As far as I'm aware this has been what the wiki has said since the > tag was first proposed and I remember mailing list discussions > broadly agreeing. The wiki page - > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:place - does explicitly > state it shouldn't be used instead of addr:suburb. It certainly appears that I have been tagging wrongly given the wiki page you cite. Frankly I find the whole address tagging schema rather confusing as many of the tags are either too specific ("housenumber" needn't be a house nor "city" a city) or too vague ("place"). There is also an issue when reading the data of which way to order the various tags, especially when people mix in "district", "province", "state", etc. > It's unfortunate when a tag is used by different people to mean > substantially different things, because it makes the data less > useful. I think there should be a wiki page dedicated to UK > addresses, which would suggest best practices for tagging more > complicated addresses. The only reason I haven't already created one > is the lack of discussion and consensus over issues like > parent/subsidiary streets, usage of addr:interpolation on buildings, > and so on. I've largely given up on adding addresses in OSM but if I were to resume then I'd certainly find it helpful if we had a wiki page with clear and concise examples of how to map GB addresses. -- Regards, Andy Street _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
