[talk-au] Dual Named Roads

[Neil Penman]

loc_name is what got me started looking at this.  Lakey boy replaced the street name for a couple of streets in Castlemaine with the names of the highway and placed the street names in loc_name.  However my reading of the wiki is that alt_name and loc_name are non official names by which a street might be referred to and I don't believe they will be rendered by Mapnik or Osmarender.  So for example in Castlemaine your address might be Baker Street, Castlemaine.   Its not going to be Midland Highway, Castlemaine even though the Midland Highway uses Baker street as it passes through.  Any printed map of the town, should in my opinion show the street as Baker Street not Midland Highway

Regards

Neil




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From: Cameron <osm-mailing-lists at justcameron.com>
To: Neil Penman <ianaf4you at yahoo.com>
Cc: talk-au at openstreetmap.org
Sent: Monday, 1 December, 2008 9:41:28 PM
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Dual Named Roads

You can use things like loc_name (local name) and alt_name (alternative name.)

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Naming

~Cameron


2008/12/1 Neil Penman <ianaf4you at yahoo.com>

Hi,

I was wondering if there was a standard approach to roads that have two names.  That is the street name in a town and the name of the highway that runs through the town.  I found an example in Yass that seems to work well.  "Yass Valley Highway:Comur Street".  Is this a recognised standard approach to this problem?


Regards

Neil Penman


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