On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:12 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;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Alex Mauer <<a href="mailto:hawke@hawkesnest.net">hawke@hawkesnest.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> SteveC wrote:<br>
>> I'd like to define some roads that really don't have a name so that<br>
>> they drop off the noname map.<br>
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>> <a href="http://dev.openstreetmap.org/%7Erandom/no-names/" target="_blank">http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/no-names/</a><br>
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>> I've been adding noname:yes but I can see that might not be optimal.<br>
>> Maybe name:__none__. Or something.<br>
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> Sounds overcomplicated to me. If you know something to be correct, just<br>
> ignore the warnings.<br>
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</div>But how do you tell someone else that it's correct?<br>
If I see there is an unnamed street I may go out of my way to find its<br>
name, only to discover it doesn't have one.... and that about 300<br>
different people before me have done the same thing.<br>
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Dave<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>What about borrowing an idea from the TIGER import and have a "reviewed=yes" tag? That would indicate that the information present has been independently checked. This doesn't directly address the "no name" issue but it might prevent 299 unnecessary visits.<br>
<br>Karl<br>