<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 5:02 PM Shawn K. Quinn <<a href="mailto:skquinn@rushpost.com">skquinn@rushpost.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 1/29/20 16:17, Paul Johnson wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 4:07 PM Joseph Eisenberg<br>
> <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> In my hometown, the main road was California highway 96, so “ref=CA<br>
> 96” but we called it “Highway 96” so “name=Highway 96”.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> I think you're confusing name=* with addr:street=* in that case, Joseph. <br>
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JOSM has a mode where it renders highway=* with a color based on the<br>
name=* and nearby addresses with color based on addr:street=*. This is<br>
useful for finding misspelled and abbreviated road names either in the<br>
address or on the road itself. I've always thought name=* was to refer<br>
to the name of the road as used in addresses, usually indicated on<br>
street signs. Have I missed something?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The name is only the name, it is not a ref or old_ref. This has even been in the wiki and normal practice for longer than I was even aware of the Names page. <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only</a></div><div><br></div><div>For street names as they appear in addresses, see addr:street instead. It's not uncommon at all for what gets put on the envelope is different than what's on the sign, or the value of addr:street= to not even be a street name but a highway number or even some internal route to whatever state postal system is present (such as RFD and RR addresses in the US).</div></div></div>