Can I ask two  basic daft questions?
What use are these in OSM if we only pick at them instead of importing the
lot ( which is  highly unlikely)?
Is it possible to derive street names from USRN in a way that is licence
compatible?

Regards

Brian

On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 13:14, Mark Goodge <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On 09/04/2020 20:58, [email protected] wrote:
> > If uprn is supposed to denote an address, why not simply use addr:uprn?
>
> It doesn't denote an address. While a lot of premises that have a UPRN
> also have an address, there are also many that don't. Every individual
> field in an agricultural area has a UPRN, for example, as do things like
> telephone boxes and street lamps. In fact, one of the main reasons
> behind the adoption of UPRNs as the unique identifier for properties is
> that addresses alone can't fulfil that purpose.
>
> Mark
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