On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 12:02, Alan Mackie <aamac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I struggle with what to call the <BuildingName> in that example. > > A recent suggestion for named terraces was to use addr:street=<TerraceName> > and addr:parentstreet=<StreetName>, but if the <HouseNumber> relates the > whole building to to parentstreet, then reconstructing an address seems > impossible.
In cases where a building/property has a number and/or name on a main street and is then sub-divided into dwellings, I would put the building/property info in addr:housenumber and/or addr:housename with addr:street as the main street. You then need a way to tag the individual dwelling identifiers. Looking at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr#Detailed_subkeys it looks like addr:unit might be the best tag to use. This is a different way of thinking about things from the "named terrace" as a sub-street approach. There are certainly real sub-streets branching off main streets that could use addr:street=* and addr:parentstreet=* that will want that approach. And there will be instances of named/numbered buildings that have flats or appartments within them that will want the approach above. There will be probably be borderline cases between the two that could use either scheme, though if the main property/building has a number on the main street, you wouldn't be able to use the sub-street approach. Robert. -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
