[Talk-us] Name tag on unnamed, but numbered routes

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 8:10 PM MoiraPrime <MoiraPrime at pm.me> wrote:

> I think out of all this discussion, we can probably agree that a name:addr
> is a good idea. It also has the benefit to solve for the auto complete in
> editors for addresses along numbered routes without a corresponding name or
> an official name that doesn't match its address name. It feels strange
> putting US XX in an address field because that's not the postal address
> you'd give online, and validators have issues with the postal address as
> well


Yeah, I went from "that'd be nice to have" to "let's make this key happen"
over the course of this, if only because of the huge number of roads that
either don't have names or have names that have nothing to do with the
addresses along it.  Kit Carson Highway, George Nigh's Northwest Passage
and literally any highway that has middle names, titles and/or honorifics
in it come to mind immediately so having name:addr would make validating
addresses in Oklahoma into a snap glance instead of the current situation
of something you really have to spend some time working out if the mismatch
is because the address is actually wrong or if it's accurate and it
correctly mismatches because of regional esoteria.
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