[OSM-talk-be] Streets with two names

[Ben Laenen]

On Tuesday 08 November 2011 14:46:00 Sander Deryckere wrote:
> I'm not in favour of this. Since the road, at least mine in Ypres, is a
> road with just one lane, where you can go where you want. It would be the
> same like splitting buildings because there are more than one shop in it,
> instead of using POI to note the shops in the building. Splitting ways will
> cause weird rendering problems and routing problems. What we need is a
> tagging schema to allow double names. Maybe something like
> 
> name=Ieperleestraat-Neerstraat
> name:left=Ieperleestraat
> name:right=Neerstraat


This is the method most people agree to and it's used internationally.

Splitting the roads into two ways for each side is a very bad idea.

Greetings
Ben