[OSM-talk] labels for road names and route designations

[Colin Mackay]

I'm not entirely sure a comma separated list would be a good idea. While I
cannot see any commas being used naturally as part of a route designation, I
can envisage some strangely named street containing commas. If a convention
for dealing with this sort of thing is to be used, it must be used
consistently throughout otherwise people get confused.

In some places in Scotland, and I'm sure around Europe too, there are
streets with two names because there are two dominant languages in the area
(Scots Gaelic & English for example). There are also examples of dual named
streets in Edinburgh where both names are in English.

Regards,
Colin.


On 28/02/06, Etienne Cherdlu <openstreetmap-L at gj0.net> wrote:
>
> On 2/27/06, Colin Mackay <colin.mackay at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >     route1=M9
> >     route2=M876
> >
> The xml way of describing this would be:
>
>   <route>M9</route>
>   <route>M876</route>
>
> As OSM labels perhaps a comma separated list would be sufficient:
>   route=M9, M876
>
> Etienne
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