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

[Clifford Snow]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> 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 wonder: Is OSMI correct in flagging this for correction, or is this
> something that nobody really cares about and that should not be
> highlighted? I.e. should we, in OSMI, drop the E/N/S/W prefix of street
> names before trying to find a match?
>

Please keep the check in until data would indicate we should change it.
I've been trying to clean up roads in my county, which is rural. Street
signs in some places have no direction indicator even though local know the
street as East Fir (for example.) Making it worse, the counties parcel data
has both parcels with and without direction prefix.

Today I was out resolving notes. County data/TIGER had a road with three
segments. The end two were Avenue and the middle was Street. The OSMI tools
is great for finding these types of errors. In King County we used your
tool to with the county to show addresses that did not match the streets.

Let me add to what Richard Weait said, this is a great tool. Thanks to you
for creating the tools and Geotab for expanding the coverage.

Clifford
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