[OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

[Karl Newman]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Nick Whitelegg
> <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> wrote:
> > SteveC wrote:
> >>> I'd like to define some roads that really don't have a name so that
> >>> they drop off the noname map.
> > [..]
> >>> Maybe name:__none__. Or something.
> >
> >>Sounds good to me..  +1
> >
> > What about just name=""?
> >
>
>
> The problem with name="" is that it isn't blindingly obvious what that
> means to other mappers... people are likely to just delete it as an
> unnecessary empty tag. There are also probably a few of these about
> already.
>
> The good point about name=__none__ is that I can bet large amounts of
> money that no street is actually named "__none__" -- the bad points
> are that renderers that don't know about it are going to write it in
> the street name, and that if little Bobby Tables gets elected to a
> council somewhere we may be in trouble ;-)
>
> I'd also be keen on something that no sane yahoo tracer could think
> was a good thing to add.
>
> Dave


So now instead of tagging for renderers we're tagging for validators? ;-)

Karl
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