[OSM-talk] Validator tags

[Matthias Julius]

sylvain letuffe <liste at letuffe.org> writes:

>> Are there other applications that care whether something really does
>> not have a name or whether the name is just not know?
>
> Yes, I see one. Someone might argue I am not of good faith, but anyway there 
> it is :
>
> Suppose I'm working for a local urban institution and they ask me to replace 
> any missing sign on streets and roads (because they were stolen/destroyed)
>
> Using the information that a osm mapper wanted to "shut the validator warning" 
> does not clearly indicate that the sign is missing.
>
> info=no sign here 
> becomes then an information about reallity of things : 
> "there are no sign on that street"

One would hope that people don't just go and add validator overrides
because they didn't find the sign.  They need to be reasonably sure
that there really is no name.

And your job then would be to go and visit all streets that have the
residential-without-name warning and enter them into the db and
replace the missing signs.

Matthias