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

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 18 00:12:33 GMT 2012


On 2/17/2012 5:44 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com
> <mailto:neroute2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/140789671>).
>
>
> Is that even in live use on any significant level?  I'm not finding
> any precedent of real consequence.

If there's something else that's used more, it should be changed. 
Otherwise leave it alone.



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