<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 2:27 AM Minh Nguyen <<a href="mailto:minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us">minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us</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">Vào lúc 18:04 2021-11-16, Martijn van Exel đã viết:<br>
> I'd prefer to stick to the convention of mapping what's on the ground, <br>
> i.e., if there's no name signposted, then don't include a name tag, <br>
> where there are signposts, mappers should feel free to add that as a name.<br>
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And map the signs as traffic_sign=US:D3-1 or US:D3-1a! :-D<br>
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> I have a feeling that there are very few truly nameless state / US <br>
> highways; there are usually abutting homes, businesses -- they have <br>
> addresses. Counties or cities will signpost them.<br>
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In most rural areas, that street name in the address would tend to be a <br>
systematic name like "State Route 15 North", which a data consumer can't <br>
rehydrate from a ref=SR 15, so there's no way to completely avoid ever <br>
putting a systematic name in name=*. (The "North" here refers to a <br>
quadrant in the county's street address scheme, not to the northbound <br>
direction.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think we're conflating <font face="monospace">name=*</font> on the road with <font face="monospace">addr:street=*</font> on the thing with an address. These often don't match when the postal service disagrees with the local authorities on what to call a road, or when the road isn't named. This isn't really something that a validator can easily check in an automated fashion, but it is something that editors can and should tell the validator to ignore on a case by case basis.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
To complicate matters, correspondents might refer to the same road by <br>
variations such as "North State Route 15", "State Route 15", "State Road <br>
15", "SR 15", "Route 15", "Highway 15", etc. It's possible that street <br>
name signs may bear all these variations inconsistently, or that none of <br>
them would be posted because shields are posted instead.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace">addr:street=*</font> should go by what emergency services and/or the postal service use. Consumers can probably fuzzy match from there.</div></div></div>