[Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

[Clay Smalley]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Saikrishna Arcot <saiarcot895 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I vote for keeping this check in place (i.e. an exact match of the street
> name), because there are some places (in California, I think) where the
> prefix/suffix changes from North to West as you are driving down the road,
> and I believe it's important that we distinguish between the two.


This is true. In many cases there will be a separate 123 North Elm Street
and 123 South Elm Street, and by chopping off the directional prefix, these
two houses get ambiguous addresses. My best guess is that the addr:street
tag is mistaken.
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