[OSM-talk] Is 'name' tag mandatory for a 'living_street'?
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursamundi.org
Sun Jun 7 02:40:38 BST 2009
USHAKOV, Sergey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dliving_street
> suggests that 'living_street' objects should be attributed with a 'name'
> tag. Meanwhile it is not uncommon for residential areas to have unnamed
> alleys inside, and the latter may form a complicated network that deserves
> being documented and rendered on the map.
>
> Is it appropriate/advisable to use 'living_street' objects for these unnamed
> alleys? Another candidate might be 'service', but to my mind 'service' is
> not good as does not reflect pedestrians' priority...
Alleys are alleys... pedestrians are allowed according to the access
charts I've seen on the wiki. Living street would be outright wrong for
an alley.
If you do actually encounter a street with no name, consider tagging it
noname=yes so people know that the lack of name= tag is not an error.
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