[Openstreetmap] Re: road names

[Tom Carden]

On 11/17/05, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:00:45AM +0000, Tom Carden wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Some editions of the London A-Z do.  It's very useful when you are (eg)
> wanting no 1000 Foo Street, and depending on which end no 1000 is at
> you're better off going to a different tube station.
>

Sure. what I was getting at was that I don't think that "1000-1500 Foo
Street" should be entered as the name of a segment in OSM right now.
But if people think that "segment runs from 1000-1500 on the left and
1051-1361 on the right" is useful, we might like to think of how to
encode and display it.

The maporama way is basic but fun (just little numbers at the end of
segments), the RoadMap way (to display "1000-1500 Foo Street") might
also work for a selected street.  The Roadmap could be implemented as
an extended description I suppose, and the maporama way could allow
segments to have "leftstart" "rightstart" "leftend" and "rightend"
numbers.

Andy's point that it becomes valuable for search is important too.

Tom.