[Tagging] Documenting my solution to a messy situation

[Peter Neale]

Hi Steve,
Hmm....  No, I had not.  Perhaps I should have done so though....
Just to be clear, are you suggesting (in my case) tagging like this:
Road E as: "name=Ferndale" (as it always was and currently still is)
[Ferndale houses here]
Road D as: "name:left=Ferndale; name:right=North Ridge";
[North Ridge houses here]
Road C as: " name:left=North Ridge; name:right=High Trees"
[High Trees houses here]
Road B as: "name=High Trees", (or maybe "name:left=High Trees", as this road has housing on one side and a car park on the other)  ?
That would mean that the names "High Trees", "North Ridge" and "Ferndale" would each be tagged on 2 roads, which are near each other, which I was trying to avoid...  ...or is that not an issue?
Then, looking at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name:left, I note that it says "The name=* tag can still include both names in order to support different tools.", which implies that  the tagging of 2 names on a single object is "allowed".  
However the example is then, 
"name:left=Leopold Luypaertstraat; name:right=Borghtstraat; name=Leopold Luypaertstraat / Borghtstraat", 
I am still not clear whether a (or some, or all) searches for one of the names alone would find it.  
To include both names in a single "name=*" tag, I had thought of using "name:right=High Trees; name:left=North Ridge; name=High Trees; North Ridge".  Would that work?  How would a renderer cope with it?  I don't want to be accused of "tagging for the renderer", but when tagging, we do need to consider the potential users, or we could fall  into Write-Only-Memory Syndrome"; documenting data that can never be retrieved.
Thank you for that suggestion.  Can you provide a little more detail?
Regards,PeterPeterPan99
    On Monday, 25 January 2021, 17:06:55 GMT, Steve Doerr <doerr.stephen at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Have you considered using name:left and name:right?
Steve 

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On 23 Jan 2021, at 15:23, Peter Neale via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:



Hi Marc,
Thanks for your guidance.  Now documented at:  https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:PeterPan99
...just in case you are interested. 
Regards,Peter

    On Saturday, 23 January 2021, 10:40:29 GMT, Peter Neale via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:  
 
 Hi Marc, 
Yes, it is my intention to put my explanation somewhere in the Wiki and then link to it from the "note=*" for each affected street.
I will look at creating "https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:<my wiki username>".   
Regards,Peter 

    On Saturday, 23 January 2021, 10:25:49 GMT, Marc_marc <marc_marc at mailo.com> wrote:  
 
 Le 23.01.21 à 10:49, Peter Neale via Tagging a écrit :
> I have had a challenge recently with naming some local streets, where
> “official” sources conflict with one another and a ground survey
> revealed a mess.

it would be interesting to explain your way of doing things here,
wouldn't it?

you can put them on the wiki
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:<your wiki username> or in your
diary https://www.openstreetmap.org/diary
and why not puttint the url in the note=* tag

in switzerland name=* get for what comes from the ground and
official_name for the official version when there is a conflict
with the field.
if there is a 3rd source, alt_name loc_name reg_name allow to
easily add the other names.



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