[OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

[moltonel 3x Combo]

On 30/05/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> there are ~600 visible_name

On Overpass there's actually only two places where "visible_name" has been used:
* In Venice, associated with a corresponding name=*, looks completely
superfluous.
* Somewhere else in Italy, associated with noname=yes and a note on
why the signposted name isn't a proper one.

In both cases, it doesn't look like a take that routers and renderers
would want to take into account.

> 37000 unsigned_ref

And 30000 of those are associated with a ref=*. Not sure how this is
supposed to be used, it seems like a poorly-designed tag to me. Is
that inherited from TIGER ?

> 518 unsigned
> 400 signed
> 161 name:signed
> 124 name:sign
> 86 ref:signed
> 48 unsigned_name
> 47 ref:unsigned
> 16 name:signposted

Yup, founds those too after Simon explained things a bit.


> It seems that for names nobody cares to say whether they are signposted or
> not (or maybe only when the sign is different from the actual name), while
> for ref it seems common practice(?) to use unsigned_ref

I wouldn't trust or interpret unsigned_ref until I understand a bit
more about it.