Recently, I have mostly been adding house addresses around my neighbourhood.
One issue I am running into is that I can’t figure out the best way to set the address for an apartment complex.
I am currently trying to tag individual buildings with building=apartments, and an area that encloses all the buildings with the address tags (like addr:housenumber, addr:housename, addr:street).
However, I noticed that that does not end up being rendered in Mapnik. I am not trying to map for the renderer, but just thought that it is odd that the housenumber or the housename do not appear just like they would for an individual house, and therefore that I must be doing something wrong.
The OSM wiki is quite vague on the subject – would someone like to share their method?
Discussion
Comment from Glassman on 30 October 2016 at 15:37
I applaud you for adding addresses to buildings. Hopefully someday soon, every address will be in OSM.
My solution to apartment numbers is using a node with the address, including the unit number (addr:unit) inside of the building outline. The individual units will render - but only with the housenumber. Tag the building outline with the main address. Check out Parkpoint Condominiums that was done a while back.
[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/47.67659/-122.26428&layers=N
Comment from alexkemp on 30 October 2016 at 17:48
Hello @stragu
Takes a long while to add addresses, doesn’t it? Well done for taking the time & trouble.
The wiki that you need to refer to is probably Tag:building=apartments#addressing
My suggestion is that you think of it in this manner:
Thus, for buildings which are a single number or a range of numbers (eg 6-14), draw the building, and place all addr:* tags into the building. The standard OSM map will display “housenumber housename” within the building outline.
entrance=*
). The various addr:* tags can then be distributed between the building way & the entrance nodes.landuse=residential
+name=name-of-complex
in the area.HTH
Comment from alexkemp on 31 October 2016 at 20:41
More wiki links for you:-
This is the format that I’ve used across the last 7 months to map houses + house addresses, although I never knew until a few hours ago that it was known by this name. It uses
addr:*
tags; they are in the wiki here:-