[OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

[Richard Fairhurst]

Alex Mauer wrote:

> That said, I still doubt the utility of a "no name" meta-value.  No
> conscientious mapper should be putting in roads with no name if they
> have a name

Wuh?

That statement is just... wrong. Really, really flabbergastingly wrong.

I cycled 420 miles recently, to do the Pennine Cycleway (NCN 68) from  
start to finish - with GPS, of course. When I got home, I mapped what  
I'd seen on OSM. So now if you look at http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/ 
osm/, we have the most usable webmap in existence of the route.

By your logic I should have either stopped at the bottom of every  
hill to note down the street name, throwing away 30mph worth of  
momentum (er, I don't think so), or not bothered mapping it at all.

Not everyone is the same type of mapper as you, and it doesn't help  
to assume that they are. OSM is and should remain a broad church.

cheers
Richard