Re: [talk-au] Dual Named Roads

Neil Penman wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there was a standard approach to roads that have two names. That is the street name in a town and the name of the highway that runs through the town. I found an example in Yass that seems to work well. Yass Valley Highway:Comur Street. Is this

Re: [talk-au] Dual Named Roads

loc_name is what got me started looking at this. Lakey boy replaced the street name for a couple of streets in Castlemaine with the names of the highway and placed the street names in loc_name. However my reading of the wiki is that alt_name and loc_name are non official names by which a

Re: [talk-au] Dual Named Roads

When routing over a long distance, you probably want to avoid: straight on Interstate Highway, straight on Main Street, straight on Interstate Highway, straight on Main Road, straight on Interstate Highway, etc. But when routing locally, you probably want to have the local name of the street.

Re: [talk-au] Dual Named Roads

Thanks Matt, Ben, my eyes must be failing me. This approach so far seems the best although it is a bit of a compromise. Regards Neil From: Ben Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Sent: Tuesday, 2 December, 2008 6:24:03 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [talk-au] Dual Named Roads

Good point. We do need a convention that the routing engines can follow. alt_name, reg_name, nat_name, loc_name etc don't seem to be the solution as per http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name. Relations would seem to be a good approach as you can easily link up streets and roads to form