[OSM-talk] Finding unnamed roads

[Jason Reid]

Damocov wrote:
> Is there an easy way in JOSM to search for unamed roads?
>
> I put a load of ways in earlier this summer meaning to go in and add the 
> names and classifications, but got side tracked.
>
> Now I've come back to start mapping again and have discovered someone 
> has helpfully taggd the highway classifications of these ways so the 
> Coventry map looks more complete but as they haven't not put in the road 
> names I can;t find them anymore as they are the same colour as the ways 
> that have the full information, can anyone think of a quick way of 
> identifying which roads I need to tag?
>
> P.S. if anyone else is mapping coventy, could you drop me a line so we 
> can co-ordinate oursleves?
>
> Damian Fell
> Damocov
>
>   
Either use the Validator plugin (which I would recommend as it helps 
find more then just missing names), or you can also do a search using 
the following search string:

type:way highway name:-

This will select all ways that have a highway tag, but have no name tag.

-Jason Reid