[OSM-talk] Unnamed Streets

Ross Scanlon info at 4x4falcon.com
Fri Aug 20 08:34:07 BST 2010


On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:23:15 -0700
Gregory Arenius <gregory at arenius.com> wrote:

> Is there any recommended way to deal with streets with no names?  I don't
> mean streets that have a name and we just haven't added that to OSM yet.  I
> mean, how do we deal with streets that really don't have a name.
> 
> I've seen two courses of action used.  One is to just leave the name field
> blank and the other is to name the street "unnamed street" or "unnamed
> road".
> 
> We could also add a tag named=no to specify that the street really has no
> name.
> 
> What do people feel is the best way to do this?
> 
> Cheers,
> Greg

noname=yes

As per here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name



-- 
Cheers
Ross



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