[talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

[Warin]

Not uncommon for a road to have several names along its length.
Many main roads do this though towns - the Great Western Highway can 
have another name through the town then revert back to the Great Western 
Highway.

I too, like Simon, would take some short section of this road and tag it 
Smith Street, leaving the rest alone as Lalbert - Kerang.
You should tag what is on the ground .. but not take that as what it 
ends up as at the other end unless you know otherwise.

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Placing of the hamlet (or other place) names is always fuzzy. Where it 
is now renders well on the map, if you place it centrally that may 
overwrite other objects - cluttering the map.


On 16-Jan-17 10:52 AM, Andrew Harvey wrote:
>
> On 16 January 2017 at 10:30, Simon Slater <pyevet at iinet.net.au 
> <mailto:pyevet at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>
>     How can I tag to reflect this, leaving
>     the Lalbert - Kerang tag for the bigger picture?
>
>
> You can split the way, if the road changes name, and use the different 
> names for different sections. At least if that matches up with what it 
> indicates on the ground.
>
>     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
>     <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 think it should go in the most central part of the place.
>
>
>
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