<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Hi Tara,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">When mapping names in OSM, my suggestion is usually to adhere to the official Government naming's spelling. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I am not aware of any specific community guidelines in local use for hyphens, though I do have a preference for no spacing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Thanks,</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Andrew</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/andrew_dc"><i>andrew_dc</i></a></div><br></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 6:51 PM Tara Vujovic (E-Search) via Talk-nz <<a href="mailto:talk-nz@openstreetmap.org">talk-nz@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,<br>
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My name is Tara and I’m a member of Microsoft OSM Editorial Team.<br>
While naming roads in New Zealand we’ve noticed that there is a different approach to how people map road names containing “-“ in the name. Through overpass-turbo query we have found around 483 cases of highways that contain space before and after dash (e.g.
Kohatu - Wakefield Highway) and around 455 cases of adding “-“ without spaces before or after (e.g. Kohatu-Wakefield Highway).<br>
Government data (<u><a href="https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/3383" title="https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/3383" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(104,136,201)">https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/3383</span></a></u> ) and address points mostly contain names with dash
without spacing on either end (e.g. Kohatu-Wakefield Highway).<br>
Is there some sort of convention or local guideline when it comes to naming these types of roads in OSM?<br>
We want to make sure that we respect local guidelines and therefore any input would be much appreciated.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
Tara<u></u><u></u></p>
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