[talk-au] Streets named Street & similar?

[Andrew Harvey]

I don't know about that, but I did encounter someone who deleted a street
name containing "Unknown" under the incorrect presumption it wasn't the
proper name https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/89905904/history.

On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 16:00, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just saw mention of this article:
> https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/,
> which made me remember.
>
> A year or so back, I read a similar OSM based article (may have been from
> a SotM conference?) about systems saying that street addresses *MUST* be
> wrong because it's shown as Street Street, Lane Lane & similar things.
>
> Person giving the talk had figures for how many of these "wrong" addresses
> there were, & it may have even been based on Oz?
>
> Ring a bell with anybody?
>
> If so, do you have a link?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
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