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

Jack Burke burkejf3 at gmail.com
Mon May 23 17:12:14 UTC 2016


I concur. You could also put Harvey as an alt_name tag. 
 
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On May 23, 2016 1:03:15 PM EDT, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
>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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