<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 9 Jun 2008, at 18:46, Karl Newman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Dave Stubbs <<a href="mailto:osm.list@randomjunk.co.uk">osm.list@randomjunk.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Alex Mauer <<a href="mailto:hawke@hawkesnest.net">hawke@hawkesnest.net</a>> wrote:<br> > Dave Stubbs wrote:<br> ><br> >> Maybe, but you're then asking, "reviewed what/how?". And you're back<br> >> to specifying that you've reviewed that the road has no name, only<br> >> probably in a more complicated way.<br> ><br> > Furthermore, I would expect the default (meaning the value to be assumed<br> > if the key doesn't exist) to be "yes". I doubt anyone who would put in<br> > a named road without bothering to put in the name would bother to enter<br> > a "reviewed=no" tag anyway.<br> ><br> > That said, I still doubt the utility of a "no name" meta-value. No<br> > conscientious mapper should be putting in roads with no name if they<br> > have a name, and no one should be going out of their way to check if a<br> > road that has no name in the db actually has no name.<br> <br> <br> So how are we going to fix London then?<br> Because this is happening on a massive scale thanks to tracing aerial imagery.<br> <br> We have literally thousands of miles of unnamed roads in London... and<br> the vast, vast majority of these /should/ have names. And I'm going to<br> go try and fix them, and would like to know when not to bother.<br> <br> This is one of those cases where we have actually identified a problem<br> and are figuring out how to fix it, rather than just inventing crap<br> for the sake of it.<br> <br> Dave<br> </blockquote></div><br>Why don't you just go to the unnamed road, and if it has a name, add it, otherwise drop a note="name not signed" on the way?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That isn't useful for validators or special renderings if you want to put a note for something else too.</div><div><br></div><div>Shaun</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>