On 30/05/2015 13:51, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote:
I find it odd that inaction, incapability or incompetence of local
sign installers is a worry for a database of geographical facts, which
OSM is.
Why should it be incompetence? Near where I live there's a ring road
around a local town. There are no signs indicating the ref of the road
because that's not the information that the road planners want to get
across. Instead, they'll add the destinations that people actually want
to get to, with the ref of that road in brackets. It's not
incompetence; it's trying to communicate clearly with road users.
Þann 30.5.2015 12:22, skrifaði Martin Koppenhoefer:
Am 29.05.2015 um 13:58 schrieb moltonel 3x Combo <molto...@gmail.com>:
That's really neat. How do you know wether a street is signposted or
not ? I don't know of any tag that gives that info.
there are ~600 visible_name
37000 unsigned_ref
518 unsigned
400 signed
161 name:signed
124 name:sign
86 ref:signed
48 unsigned_name
47 ref:unsigned
16 name:signposted
I haven't checked on which kind of objects or which do not refer to
highways or names
Very likely I also missed some variants
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
Looking at the values and distribution, those look to be mainly
US-based, where a road can be part of multiple routes. It's a slightly
different problem that's being solved there, I think, and again I
suspect it's due to the road planners trying to communicate clearly with
road users.
Cheers,
Andy
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