[OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

[Shaun McDonald]

On 9 Jun 2008, at 18:46, Karl Newman wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk 
> > wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net>  
> wrote:
> > Dave Stubbs wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe, but you're then asking, "reviewed what/how?". And you're  
> back
> >> to specifying that you've reviewed that the road has no name, only
> >> probably in a more complicated way.
> >
> > Furthermore, I would expect the default (meaning the value to be  
> assumed
> > if the key doesn't exist) to be "yes".  I doubt anyone who would  
> put in
> > a named road without bothering to put in the name would bother to  
> enter
> > a "reviewed=no" tag anyway.
> >
> > 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, and no one should be going out of their way to check  
> if a
> > road that has no name in the db actually has no name.
>
>
> So how are we going to fix London then?
> Because this is happening on a massive scale thanks to tracing  
> aerial imagery.
>
> We have literally thousands of miles of unnamed roads in London... and
> the vast, vast majority of these /should/ have names. And I'm going to
> go try and fix them, and would like to know when not to bother.
>
> This is one of those cases where we have actually identified a problem
> and are figuring out how to fix it, rather than just inventing crap
> for the sake of it.
>
> Dave
>
> Why don't you just go to the unnamed road, and if it has a name, add  
> it, otherwise drop a note="name not signed" on the way?

That isn't useful for validators or special renderings if you want to  
put a note for something else too.

Shaun

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