[OSM-talk-be] Straten met 2 namen

[Jo]

left/right has been approved already in 2009 for exactly this kind of
problem:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/right_left

Belgium is not the only country with streets having 2 or more names. I see
this subject appear on talk-fr every once in a while and on the wiki they
give an example in the UK.

Jo


2013/11/22 Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com>

> I think we have a rather good solution, but it should be documented and
> announced to the world. This will allow tool developers to pick up and
> implement it. At this moment the tags (name:right & name:left) is unknown,
> at least the combination with name. Nominatim does not support it, no one
> will find the street (see
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Development_overview)
>
> Same for the solution with associatedStreet. It's fine in theory, but no
> software is using it as we would like to. Nominatim only uses it to locate
> a street segment and takes the name from there. It does not read the tags
> from the relation.
>
>
> So someone should start discussing it on the tagging-mailing list; and
> start a proposal and hope it will be accepted.  I have no idea whether this
> problem also occurs in other countries (you'll learn about that by
> discussing it on the tagging-mailing list).
>
> m
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Gilbert Hersschens <ghersschens at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> IMHO this is incorrect - except for the short stretch where the traffic
>> island is. The authors probably did this to handle the different street
>> names on opposite sides of the street.
>> Since the street is physically just a normal street, it should be mapped
>> as a single way for 2-way traffic. The street names should be name:left=xxx
>> and name:right=yyy.
>> Left and right are as defined in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Left
>> .
>> Maybe you should first contact the authors (
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Eebie,
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/RoRay).
>>
>> Gilbert
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