[OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

[Alex Mauer]

Dave Stubbs wrote:
> Mostly because this is the property that we're most interested in at
> the moment. Reviewed feels to me too open ended.

It is a bit, but I think it's great for this sort of localized, map
party sort of thing.  You put the tags on in the area you're about to do
and take them off when you're done.  Any unreviewed roads remaining in
the area you (or the mapping party) is working on, you know still need
to be done.

> A little like the
> concept of completeness. We can't really (easily) mark in the
> unreviewed areas because so many have already been added without it,
> but we can tell they don't have a name.... so then we just want to
> quickly deal with the false positives that throws up.

I think you can fairly easily add a "reviewed=no" tag to all unnamed
roads in an area (using JOSM).  Then once you've gone through and
reviewed them, any unnamed road in that area without a reviewed=no tag
can be assumed to be a truly unnamed street (false positive in the
no-names map).

This does make a couple of assumptions:
*The mapping of the area is fairly complete, so you don't have someone
adding a bunch more unnamed roads later on.
*You're not going to go out of your way into this area again any time
soon to check on the very few unnamed roads that are still there.  This
is fairly likely, since the area in question hasn't been mapped by hand
yet (i.e. there is no mapper local to the area)

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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