[Talk-us] 'Honorary' street name conflicts with posted name - how to decide

[Martijn van Exel]

Salt Lake City just renamed a part of 900 South to ‘Harvey Milk Boulevard’. This is a so-called ‘honorary designation’. But now I see a conflict. 

1) The common tagging practice is that posted names rule. The signs changed to show the new honorary name: https://goo.gl/photos/xqAxQCwCmPRUGWkm9 <https://goo.gl/photos/xqAxQCwCmPRUGWkm9> . So that would suggest I change the name to ‘Harvey Milk Boulevard’ and demote ‘900 South’ to name_1 or loc_name.
2) Addressing and geocoding. People will continue to refer to this street as 900 South. Official addresses will not change. That would suggest that I leave the name=900 South in place and add name_1=Harvey Milk Boulevard. 

I went with option 2, here is a segment —> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/418190301 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/418190301>

Opinions?

Martijn
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