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At 2010-04-23 18:11, Anthony
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<dd>A navi system is more useful if the instructions and signs
match.<br><br>
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Depends on your purpose. If you're trying to navigate to the
missigned street (e.g. "California Street", where the sign
reads "Carolina Street"), you don't want to get a response of
"street not found". For most other purposes you'd rather
have the incorrect name (at least until it gets
fixed).</blockquote><br>
Yeah - this is always a quandary. In my experience, the street sign
usually ends up being "right" anyway, so I'm usually asking the
responsible authority to fix their GIS and/or the source map (yes, even
tract maps that are decades old :) ). I don't really consider this as
"original research", since it's really a matter of reconciling
sources, but it's admittedly time consuming and requires additional
research that many mappers (understandably) may not want to do. Still, I
think it's value that I can add, not only to OSM, but also for my fellow
citizens.<br><br>
When the sign is wrong, I notify the signing authority and, if it seems
that they intend to fix it soon (the usual case), I put the correct value
in the name tag and the signed value in the alt_name tag, with a note tag
describing the situation. If there is no easy contact with the authority,
or it seems they may not fix it soon, I reverse the tagging. Either way,
there are notes/FIXMEs there to remind me (or others) to survey again in
the future.<br><br>
BTW, technically, I would call surveying/photographing, and then mapping
based on it, original research :)<br><br>
P.S.
<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/56123368" eudora="autourl">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/56123368</a>
is one of those strange cases where it's been signed and likely known "wrong" according to the cited docs, because the signed name is more logical in context. I name'd it as signed and put the recorded name in the official_name tag instead. If there's anyone nearby that would like to have a look, It'd be useful to know how it's signed at the intersection with Outer Traffic Circle here: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/122696036" eudora="autourl">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/122696036</a> .<br>
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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM@Earthlink.net><br>
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