[Talk-us] name expansion bot (Re: Imports information on the wiki)

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 2/17/2012 4:41 PM, TC Haddad wrote:
> For example: in Portland all the expanded quadrant names (NE,NW, SE, SW)
> really detract from the experience of using osm extracts on handheld
> GPS. All the streets in an area of interest end up looking like they
> have the same name because all that fits on the street segments is the
> first word of the expanded quadrant label and not the "real" part of the
> name. So "NE Tillamook" and "NE Hancock" both just label as
> "Northeast"... and that is separate from the issue that people don't
> actually write addresses here as "Northeast Tillamook".

If the directional prefixes are not generally used as part of the name, 
they should probably not be in the name tag, but instead as an address 
tag (I've used addr:direction e.g. 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/140789671).