[Talk-il] Mapping conventions

[Eli Hadad]

Hi all,

I joined OSM two months ago and mainly mapping Rishon Lezion area.
When I needed to make some decision regarding to mapping questions I mainly
looked in other areas like Tel Aviv or asked specific people.

I was adviced to raise the questions in this mailing list, which I didn't
know exists until yesterday.
I went over the archives and read the thread "convention for tagging
roads" that Yuri started. Was there any final decision regarding it? I saw
that all agree with it, yet didn't see final decision.
Also I have few more questions regarding mapping conventions and will
appreciate your opinion on them.

1. Does a street name should be prefixed with word like "רחוב" or "שדרות"?
I personally prefer that the name will not include this information, if this
kind of information is important maybe a new tag should be added for it.

2. Should we use full names for the streets or the most commonly used /
known?
One example is: ז'בוטינסקי or זאב ז'בוטינסקי, where both names are known.
Second example is (street in Rishon): "גיסין" which is the known name or
"דוד ואריה לייב גיסין", which is the full name but I don't think that
anybody is familiar with this name?

3. When a street is bi-directional and the direction lanes are saparated
by traffic island ("אי תנועה"), does the map should have two separate route,
one for each direction?
For streets saparated by traffic island, I currently create two routes one
for each direction.

Thanks,
Eli
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