[OSM-talk] NoName
David Earl
david at frankieandshadow.com
Sun Sep 14 18:01:11 BST 2008
On 14/09/2008 17:45, Andy Allan wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk> wrote:
>> Gerv wrote:
>>
>>> What is the official way (read: "way that the map will
>>> recognise) of
>>> marking a road to say that it actually doesn't have a name, and
>>> so
>>> shouldn't appear as "name missing" on the map?
>> Could you add the name tag with a blank value (I've not tried this
>> yet). I am guessing it is checking for the name tag and not checking
>> values, though may be wrong.
>
> Please don't try to find things that "work". At the moment there's no
> convention on marking roads that are truely unnamed, and when there's
> a convention established (or more than one, who knows) then the
> nonames map will be updated to use it. The best I've heard so far is
> an additional tag of noname=true, which requires so much mental
> gymnastics that I'm sure we can come up with a better one!
There are only really three solutions, I think:
1. do nothing and don't worry about it
2. have a separate tag (as with noname=true)
3. have a special value for the name tag (name=none or some such)
David
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