Allow House Names to be added/editable in RRPs
In the UK, houses can be named instead of numbered. This is very common in rural parts of the country.
When an App user adds a Residential Place they can add in House Names within the address field. When the Residential Place Update Request reaches WME, we can approve the PUR, but once it's been saved, we cannot edit it due to the restriction WME puts on the Address field (numbers only with letter suffixes). We can't even move the RRP, the only thing we can do is delete it.
This request is to allow House Names to be added and editable in RRPs within WME, to match the capability of the app.
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Norton Lench commented
Agree this is required. In the UK Village I live in at least half the houses have house names , no numbers.
In addition when Waze / Google satnav users try to find a house name , the directions default to the post code WR11 4TL sending cars down a private road with no turning space, meaning cars have to try and reverse down a narrow lane back out onto a very busy main road.
If you add into the mix the number of home deliveries these days, Waze / Google is not a reliable map for rural villages.
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Richard Lord
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I wish to add residential addresses in the Peak District of Derbyshire - a "typical" rural area of the UK. Currently, it is impossible to do so within the WME as a residential place if that address contains anything other than numerical data [aside from a limited suffix].
Here is a sample of the data I would like to add; from just one postcode of one small village - maybe 25 to 30% of the total addresses in the village:
Ashford Cottage, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Ashford House, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Avonlea, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Bay Horse Barn, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Bay Horse Cottage, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Bay Horse Inn, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Bolton House, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Chapel View Farm, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Croft Cottage, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Cumbrae, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Dale House Farm, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Dale House Farm Cottage, Chapel Street, Monyash, DE45 1JJ
Hollyberry Cottage, 1 Dale View, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
2 Dale View, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
3 Dale View, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
4 Dale View, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Fox Torr Cottage, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Hawthorn Farm, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Hawthorne Cottage, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Hawthorne House, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Hill Top, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Ingatestone House, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Lark Rise House, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Melbourne House, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Misurata, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Oakdene, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Pleasant Cottage, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Post Office Farm, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Primrose Cottage, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Sheldon Barn, Chapel Street, Monyash, DE45 1JJ
Sheldon Cottage, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Sheldon House, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Shepley House, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Shuttle Hill Cottage, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Stonecroft, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Tenby House, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
The Barn Cottage, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Toll Bar Cottage, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Town Hill, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Townend Farmhouse, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Twitter Barn, Chapel Street, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Lime Tree House, Handley Lane, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Lindum Cottage, Handley Lane, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Pinfold Barn, Handley Lane, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
September Cottage, Handley Lane, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Sunny Side, Handley Lane, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Sunnyside, Handley Lane, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
Nursery Fields Farm, Horse Lane, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJ
1 The Square, Monyash, Bakewell, DE45 1JJOf those 49 addresses - all of them residential - only 5 include a numerical element, of which 4 relate to a terrace of cottages built perpendicular to the street the address relates to [i.e. their "entry point" is at the same place on the street] - and one of those four has a house name as a part of the address too!!! [we British like to name our houses, it appears to make where we live look "posh"].
This is by no means atypical of the situation in most of rural Britain.
We *NEED* to be able to add [and edit] RRPs with alphabetical characters in WME ASAP otherwise whole swathes of Britain will remain unmappable with regard to their addresses. This is especially important because although it is possible to approximate a nominal position on a street full of house numbers, from a couple of known fixed points, it is impossible to do so on a street full of house names [or a collection of random alphabetical characters as it would appear to an alogrithm].
Edit: I was going to add this as a new idea, but I saw Kevin had got here before me - over 2 years ago! It is scarcely credible that this idea has not been progressed since that time.
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wxw777 commented
This is very similar to the need we have in in the US where some areas have house numbers that start with a cardinal letter (i.e. N,W, E,W). These are un-editable in WME if created by a user in the app.