[Talk-GB] Unsigned road names (was "C roads again")

[SomeoneElse]

On 13/08/2014 10:05, Philip Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 07:37 +0100, Lester Caine wrote:
>> But it's a bit like the 'name' problem where a few roads have locally
>> known names, but these are not displayed on signs :( Need recording but
>> not necessarily displaying.
> I think thats an important point, there are many such roads in
> Shropshire too. There needs to be a way of navigating to an address on
> these roads, but we do need a method of indicating to the end user that
> there is no sign, partly to tell routers to not say turn left into x
> road, but also to give confidence to someone that they really are in the
> right place when they haven't seen a sign.
>
> name:unmarked maybe an option.
>

I'm currently using "name:signed=no" for these ( 
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/name:signed ) but am open to 
suggestion if there's a better tagging option.

When creating maps for the car I drop names from "name:signed=no" to 
avoid receiving confusing verbal directions.

I have also used "ref:signed=no" for places (like the Derby Ring Road 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/278713952 ) where something is 
undeniably the road ref but isn't included on signs - personally that 
makes more sense to me than somehow trying to decide whether a ref 
should be a "ref" or "official_ref"** (but I'm aware that I'm in a 
minority on this!).

Cheers,

Andy

** FWIW prow_ref for footpaths and bridleways and bridge_ref for bridges 
do make sense to me (it's a different list in each case).