[OSM-talk] [tagging] noname streets

[D Tucny]

2008/6/11 Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net>:

> Vincent Zweije wrote:
> > You can only do this in very rare circumstances, otherwise the
> > errors-to-be-ignored drown out the errors you need to see and fix. An
> > unnamed street is not such a rare circumstance, IMO.
>
> I don't think that's true.  There really aren't that many, in my
> experience.  At least roads larger than "service" -- unnamed service
> roads are very common.  So much so that they shouldn't be in warnings at
> all.
>
> Do you have an example of a place with many unnamed roads?
>
> Here, in the city centre most public roads are named, some aren't and the
buildings on them seem to get addresses at random from surrounding named
roads... However...  Each 'block' of about 1km x 0.5km typically contains a
housing area, normally with a guard booth at entrances and normally with
gates, even if, as is quite common in some areas, the gates are never
closed... There can be as many as 8 entrances with roads running in various
patterns through these areas providing access to the residences enclosed
within... In many cases there are real through routes though traffic would
be typically encouraged to follow the main roads around the area...
Sometimes, one or two of the roads within one of these areas is named, many
times none are named... I'd consider these to be residential roads within an
urban gated community, I'm not sure if you consider them to be larger than
service roads, but if so, this is a good example of nameless roads...

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