[Openstreetmap] Re: road names

[Tom Carden]

On 11/17/05, Andy Robinson <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Tom Carden Wrote on 17 November 2005 00:01:
>
> >But are address ranges really the same sort of information as street
> >name?  Can you show us an example of a map which shows them?  I
> >suspect they'd be a separate tag, but I'd be interested to see how
> >other maps deal with displaying them.
>
> Maporama places (very helpfully) the house number closest to the street
> intersections and elsewhere:
>
> <URL:http://www.maporama.com/share/map.asp?SESSIONID=%7BE90975A8-E19E-491C-8
> 925-84CE49CC7119%7D&NewMapSize=568%2C380&NewMapStyle=maporama_en&units=1&cus
> tomize.x=21&customize.y=12>
>

That is very helpful, and we should look at how best to support similar things.

But I don't think we should be writing address ranges in the segment
"name" just yet - it would need more careful planning than that.

Tom.