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

[Peter Dobratz]

I like to confirm street names by checking for POIs along the street.
There's a Great Clips hair salon near there with the following address (see
http://www.greatclips.com/ ):

906 E 900 S
Salt Lake City, UT 84105

I would put the following addr:* tags on that business:
addr:housenumber=906
addr:street=East 900 South
addr:city=Salt Lake City
addr:state=UT
addr:postcode=84105

I may not fully understand the nuances of Salt Lake City addresses, but
generally I like to make whatever is in addr:street match what goes in name
on the road itself.  In this case, I would use:
name=East 900 South
alt_name=Harvey Milk Boulevard

Looking a little to the west of there, there's a Pier 1 Imports (
http://www.pier1.com/ ):

30 West 900 South Salt Lake City, UT 84101-2930

addr:housenumber=30
addr:street=West 900 South
addr:city=Salt Lake City
addr:state=UT
addr:postcode=84101

By that point the road should change to:
name=West 900 South
alt_name=Harvey Milk Boulevard

I generally avoid using the "_1" suffix whenever possible.

Peter


On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Jack Burke <burkejf3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I concur. You could also put Harvey as an alt_name tag.
>
> --
> Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology
>
> 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 . 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
>>
>> Opinions?
>>
>> Martijn
>>
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