[Talk-GB] Unsigned road names (was "Fix the road name!")

[SK53]

I have always assumed that your usage is fine, although I have not tagged
this information myself.

However, today chasing up one of the missing locator streets (one I knew
had been built, but had not bee in the area for a while) I found that the
road is completely lacking any street name signs. Fortunately a couple of
the houses have the name of the street as well as the housenumber, so I was
able to resolve the name.

Cheers,

Jerry

On 24 January 2015 at 20:33, SomeoneElse <lists at atownsend.org.uk> wrote:

> Hijacking the thread somewhat, but something that I was wondering about
> recently...
>
> There are many roads that are signed, and we can add them to OSM. Great!
>
> There are some roads that are signed, and the sign differs from what the
> local authority thinks that a road is called (usually just common typos -
> no surprise, everyone makes mistakes), and we can add the "wrong" name as a
> "not:name".  Also great!
>
> Sometimes something that isn't a name that anyone would ever use to refer
> to something creeps into OSM.  These usually (eventually) get shunted off
> into another key - perhaps "official_name", or something else.
>
> However, there are names where the name in OSM is what the local authority
> uses, and what local people would agree that it is called, but there's no
> sign on the ground.  How do we reflect that?  It's useful to know from a
> routing perpective because "turn right on foo street" is of no use if "foo
> street" isn't signed as such.  It still makes sense for "foo street" to be
> in OSM as the name rather than any other key, because everyone agrees that
> it is the name - there just isn't a sign for it.
>
> What's the best way to tag this?  Currently I've been using
> "name:signed=no" (and "ref:signed=no" where the road ref isn't signed).  Is
> there a better / more accepted way of doing this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
>
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