[OSM-talk] Validator: similarly named ways

[Francisco R. Santos]

Hi Jon

On 8/25/07, Jon Bright <jon at siliconcircus.com> wrote:
>
> >     It's complaining about similarly named ways: the ways in question
> are
> >     "Wasserstraße" and "Königstraße".  Those names seem sufficiently
> >     dissimilar that I think it shouldn't be doing that...
> >
> > I have created two residential ways with these names and they are not
> > marked as similar with latest version (3639). Where are these ways
> located?
>
>
> http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.38612878542754&lon=7.391655605389417&zoom=16&layers=B000F000
>
> Wasserstraße is just to the right of the river on the left (it's a stub
> - I have the street-name sign but haven't mapped the street itself yet).
>   Königstraße is in the top right.  Both are highway=unclassified.
>
> I'm also using 3639 and having just freshly downloaded the data, I still
> see the problem.


At that location I get 3 warnings of similar ways, all of them with ways
named "Wasserstraße" and "Kaiserstraße", which indeed are very similar (only
differ in 2 letters), but not "Königstraße", as you say.
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