[OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

[Alex Mauer]

Andy Allan wrote:
> The issue is the partially-done, somewhat scrappy areas, like
> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/no-names/?zoom=15&lat=6718359.62403&lon=859.10713&layers=B000
> 
> I don't know whether Dave or Shaun or Harry or anyone else has gone
> and checked these roads. And there's no point in me checking them,
> finding that they don't have a name, and also finding on Wednesday in
> the pub that all three of them have also checked these roads in the
> last few weeks. That would be a waste of time, and its this
> double-over-checking that Dave and SteveC are trying to avoid.

That (or the corrected link in the followup) is a better example than
Shaun's, but surely more of a coordination problem than a tagging
problem.  Adding a tag (be it reviewed=no, unnamed=yes, or anything
else) cannot solve it, and is simply tagging to remove warnings from the
validator.

Both examples seem to be "Look at all the streets that show up in the
validator: there might be one or two in there that are truly unnamed!".
  And the solution there is not to mark the ones that are truly unnamed,
it's to go and find out the names of the ones that are named.  Once
that's done, you can probably assume that the one or two roads that
still don't have a name are truly unnamed.  And if occasionally someone
just passing through anyway double checks the roads because they're on
the validator, it's no big deal.

I could be mistaken there.  If all the roads in that link are truly
unnamed, then I could see where the validator could mislead someone by
suggesting that there's a need to actually go there to fix up the
largish cluster of missing road names in the area.  And if so, there's
probably a need to clean up the validator.  But I don't believe that to
be the case.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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