[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions
Richard Finegold
goldfndr+osm at gmail.com
Fri May 14 21:16:22 BST 2010
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 20:18, Val Kartchner <val42k at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
I'll again claim that just one field would be enough -- the street
name -- and the other three can be derived from their offsets; trivial
for direction prefix, and slightly more complicated (requiring a
dictionary/list of directions, anything left over goes into the street
type field) for the latter two.
Can you offer any examples where these three would be difficult to
derive if one was provided only full name and street name?
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