Hi all, and thanks for the various advice offered, both directly to me
and through this channel. It's often lonely and I really do appreciate
it!
To be absolutely clear: I always map with the postal address: street
name, house number, house name (if there is one) and, since I was duly
corrected some years ago, using city and addr:suburb as per the wiki and
not as per local preferred usage. Most domestic properties work like
this and I've done tens of thousands of them. Not sure if the responses
relate to other's experience or what I described yesterday. It's rare
that the overall name for the terrace is used in any legal document but
as an identifier when you are stood in front of a building with a name
written clearly on it, it's very valuable and, I can affirm, is used a
lot round here.
So my question was about how we would identify a group of terraced
houses that, in addition, have a name which applies to them all, the
terrace name, which is not the street name (okay, okay, rarely the
terrace is actually the postal address but I can think of two examples
in my local authority area where the terrace name takes precedence over
the street name by the post office and at this rate it'll be 7 years
till I get to map that area!). How do we record that without it
cluttering the map with a repeated name.
I have applied one suggestion and sent screen grabs of before and after.
That seems the best way and I thank you for it! Any feedback would be
valuable. Changeset:178909352 My only concern would be if someone
tries to update it later, the 'layers' may prove confusing to a newbie.
I'm afraid I don't use JOSM. A very kind local mapper spent some time
showing me the basics - hello Tony! - but it doesn't suit my workflow
and I would need many more lessons. All my edits are from direct survey
or observation on the ground and all in iD editor.
John.
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Sent: Monday, February 23rd 2026, 07:10
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Terraced houses group naming
On 22/02/2026 16:21, Martin Wynne wrote:
On 22/02/2026 15:30, Elizabeth Oldham wrote:
On 22-02-2026 14:08, Martin Wynne wrote:
building=house house=terraced name="23"
That's not the name of the house though is it...
It is if it's on a plate on the front door. That's the wiki definition
of name - as displayed on a physical sign.
No it's not. That's an identifying reference created by the Royal Mail.
Everybody else uses if for convenience, but there's nothing really,
apart from the hassle, to prevent another delivery company from
inventing their own.
You should add house address numbers to the addr:housenumber tag.
There's no logical difference between a plate saying "Field
Cottage" and a plate saying "No. 23".
addr:housename=Field Cottage
It's the way properties are described in legal documents.
But not in OSM.
Cheers
DaveF
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