[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions
Val Kartchner
val42k at gmail.com
Tue May 11 04:18:12 BST 2010
This topic has been dropped without it having been resolved. We still
need some way of addressing the issues summarized in
"http://vidthekid.info/misc/osm-abbr.html". This can be summarized as
needing to create fields for:
direction prefix
street name
street type
direction suffix
This is needed for exactly the same reason that no abbreviations are
supposed to be used in OSM: There is no automated way to fix the parts
of a street name.
For instance, here are some actual addresses which occur in this area:
Number Prefix Street Name Type Suffix
200 West North Temple Street
200 East South Temple Street
200 North West Temple Street
50 East North Lakeview Drive
50 East South Lakeview Drive
2450 North E Street
300 Southgate Drive
4700 West 3300 Street South
These are just samples, but others on this list have come up with other
examples that demonstrate the problems with the current way of doing
things. Also, in the last example given above, the "Type" and "Suffix"
would be swapped, but in most written addresses the "Type" would be
dropped.
- Val -
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