[talk-au] Vicmap data copying

[Steve Bennett]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about this confusing one: http://bit.ly/1hXvwVK
>
>  The picnic ground/campsite is literally signed "No Name", and that's how
> everyone refers to it. I have no idea what the history is. (And there's a
> corner on the way up Mount Buller called 'Unnamed corner').
>
>
>
> Well if you add the tag source:name then it should be clear that it is a
> real name? Rather than a description .. like "Service Road", "No Public
> Access" ... in some ways I don't mind that in the name tag as it does
> convey information that may not be avaliable otherwise.
>

Yes, it's unambiguous - but still confusing. One of my friends on this
recent cycling trip down the Snowy thought the "No Name" on his GPS was a
mistake in OSM. Maybe in a weird case like that we should make it name="No
Name" (ie, actually include the quotes), or name=No Name Picnic Ground.


>
> The tag unsigned come from the wiki
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Noname
> I don't like the finality of the tag noname as that implys there is no
> name at all... the sign may be missing .. but it may still have a name.
> Even just a local name that the locals use to idntify it.
>

Agreed.

Steve
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