[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Phil! Gold wrote:
> * David ``Smith'' <vidthekid at gmail.com> [2010-05-14 23:58 -0400]:
>> 5) The value of "addr:street=*" should contain the abbreviated form of
>> the street name according to USPS standards, regardless of the way the
>> street name is signed.
> 
> The point of addr:street is to associate the address to a particular road,

No.

The point of addr:street is always related to addressing. If a building 
happens to be on road A but for some strange reason the postal address 
of the building uses road B, then addr:street should always have road B. 
The whole point of addr:* is postal addresses.

Sometimes people seem to forget or ignore that, and issue addr:street 
even for things that do not have addresses (a tree an be on X road but 
it will not usually have a postal address so it should never have an 
addr:street tag).

Bye
Frederik