OpenStreetMap
Have recently been doing a bunch of Bing tracing and then walking the area for address details, in a variety of locations.
Over Christmas I did the village I was staying in, Devauden:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.68666&lon=-2.74789&zoom=17&layers=M
The un-labelled ones are house names rather than numbers. Will get addr:housename to render shortly, but need to get that tag into the default.style file first so DB can import it.
Then plenty of extra detail in my local Borough, Enfield:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.66583&lon=-0.08842&zoom=17&layers=M
Progress is shown by this snapshot of a couple of weeks ago, which shows the black for OS_OpenData tracing and red for Bing tracing:
http://www.stevechilton.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/osm/buildingsBing.png
Finally I worked in Chigwell recently for a day and managed to survey one small estate whilst I was there - my least favourite surveying type, with all the little ginnals, and weird numbering systems on the larger blocks of flats:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.60734&lon=0.08745&zoom=17&layers=M
Discussion
Comment from !i! on 23 January 2011 at 07:24
Great work, I like adressing, too :)
Comment from chillly on 23 January 2011 at 09:34
If you want to add UK postcodes there is an overlay for the editors to display the postcode centroids, as supplied in the OS Opendata. I need to load the data for areas people are interested in, so drop me a note if you want your area(s) loading. See http://chris-osm.blogspot.com/2011/01/using-gb-postcodes.html
Comment from Vclaw on 24 January 2011 at 14:59
Yes, rendering addr:housename would be great.
I've been doing a bit of mapping houses from surveying addresses and Bing tracing in villages around here. And a lot of houses have names instead of numbers, so it would be nice to see those on the map.
Plus it would make it more obvious which have missing names/numbers. I've noticed quite a few houses that don't appear to have a name or number signed anywhere.
Comment from Pink Duck on 25 January 2011 at 13:22
I too would like to see addr:housename rendered in preference to addr:housenumber, but for now I'll continue adding an additional name tag to ensure that house names are displayed.