[Openstreetmap] Re: road names

[Richard Fairhurst]

Quoting Tom Carden <tom at tom-carden.co.uk>:

> 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.

I wonder if there's a freethepostcode connection in here somewhere. Postcodes
are usually defined as "Nine Acres Close, odd numbers from 1 to 31" or similar.

Storing such information for Openstreetmap could greatly increase the usefulness
of the freethepostcode dataset, and vice versa.

Richard

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