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

[Phil! Gold]

* Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> [2014-04-29 21:05 +0200]:
> In looking at its current error messages and warnings, I find many
> situations in the US where the way itself has a name tag of "South Apple
> Tree Road" but the house has an addr:street tag of just "Apple Tree
> Road". This leads to a "street not found" error.

I think this should always be an error.  The address tag should not drop
words that are in the street name.

(The reverse is more interesting; if a house has address "15 South Apple
Tree Road" but the street signs on that road say, "Apple Tree Road", I
don't think there's complete consensus on how to tag that, though the most
common approach, from what I've seen, is to name the road's way "South
Apple Tree Road".)