[talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

[Ross Scanlon]

Split the way at the railway tracks, add name="Smith Street", add 
alt_name="Lalbert - Kerang Road" to the section west of the railway.

Like this:

http://map.fosm.org/browse/way/1000002503479#map/18/-35.676/143.377

Cheers

Ross


On 16/01/17 10:30, Simon Slater wrote:
>> G'day all,
>>     We needed our daughter to pick something up from Lalbert and 
>> since she
>> had never driven there herself, we looked up the map.  However, Smith 
>> St did
>> not appear, instead tagged as the Lalbert Kerang Rd, as here: https://
>> www.openstreetmap.org/way/80838220#map=17/-35.67595/143.37920
>>
>> For the locals and for street numbers, it is Smith St, at least from 
>> the Swan
>> Hill - Donald road to the rail tracks.  How can I tag to reflect 
>> this, leaving
>> the Lalbert - Kerang tag for the bigger picture?
>>
>> On a secondary note, the node for Lalbert is in the middle of empty 
>> land:
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1774352212#map=16/-35.6726/143.3759 
>> Should
>> this be moved a bit more centrally, like near the cafe and garage on 
>> Main St?
>>
>> I have seen both these scenarios a few times in the hamlets around here.
>> Apart from tidiness, would this also improve routing?
>>
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