[Openstreetmap] Re: road names

[Alex Mauer]

Tom Carden wrote:

> 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 don't think the left/right distinction is terribly useful. It's nearly
always sufficient, both for navigation and for ease of data entry, to
know what block a particular number is on (though it may be interesting
to provide co-ordinates for each individual house...).  Segments are
also not the best unit for this, as roads may be divided into multiple
segments (curved or long roads).  I just wanted to get the idea out
there that it is useful to distinguish units smaller than the entire road.

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