Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc.

2018-08-31 Thread Evin Fairchild
Yeah, I agree, it is redundant and thus completely unnecessary to put the highway number in the name tag. Have you informed SSR_317 about this discussion? On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 7:09 PM Albert Pundt wrote: > I notice the user SSR_317 has been adding the route numbers of unnamed > roads to

Re: [Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc.

2018-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
Yes, this is correct. name=* is only the name. Ideally, the ref=* tag should be *supplemental* to a proper route relation at this point (especially in Indiana, where I am aware of a *nine-way* concurrency, something ref=* just doesn't handle very elegantly at all in even the slightest stretch of

[Talk-us] Naming numbered roads as "State Route X", "Interstate X", etc.

2018-08-31 Thread Albert Pundt
I notice the user SSR_317 has been adding the route numbers of unnamed roads to the name=* tag of roads around Indianapolis. For example, name=Interstate 465, name=US 31, name=State Route 37, etc. Isn't this practice frowned upon as being redundant and not reflecting the lack of a proper name to

Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

2018-08-31 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 30.08.2018 22:43, Frederik Ramm wrote: > We can only speculate about the motives here Ah, just a security researcher, I guess this makes it ok then? https://reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/9brqx4/this_is_medwedianpresident1_talking_what_i_did/ > frankly my money is on > "attention

Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

2018-08-31 Thread Rihards
On 2018.08.30. 23:20, Kevin Kenny wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:39 AM Ian Dees wrote: >> >> Yes, the original harmful edit was made by user "MedwedianPresident" in >> changeset https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/61555047 20 days ago. It >> was then reverted by naoliv a day later: >>

Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

2018-08-31 Thread Richard Welty
On 8/31/18 5:58 AM, Rihards wrote: > > It gives us the same press as some vandals messing with wikipedia - > let's not see it as a worse thing than it is. > > As a sidenote, this was detected and revert in OSM in a day. If data > consumers would update the data more frequently, the impact would be