Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-05-01 Thread Mike N
On 4/30/2014 11:59 PM, David K wrote: If a street has name=Elm Street but a house has addr:street=S Elm St, I consider this perfectly valid (in a city that in fact has only one Elm Street). (Sidebar: I use USPS abbreviations in addr:street values because that's how USPS prefers mail to be

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-30 Thread David K
In my part of Ohio it's very common to have something like the following: 250 South Elm Street and 250 North Elm Street are two distinct addresses on the same Elm Street (but on opposite sides of the city's east-west axis). Often (but not always) the direction prefix appears on street signs, but

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, [ ... ] I wonder: Is OSMI correct in flagging this for correction, or is this something that nobody really cares about and that should not be highlighted? I.e. should we, in OSMI, drop the E/N/S/W prefix of street

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
I vote for keeping this check in place (i.e. an exact match of the street name), because there are some places (in California, I think) where the prefix/suffix changes from North to West as you are driving down the road, and I believe it's important that we distinguish between the two. --

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Clay Smalley
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Saikrishna Arcot saiarcot...@gmail.comwrote: I vote for keeping this check in place (i.e. an exact match of the street name), because there are some places (in California, I think) where the prefix/suffix changes from North to West as you are driving down the

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Welty
On 4/29/14 4:08 PM, Phil! Gold wrote: * Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org [2014-04-29 21:05 +0200]: In looking at its current error messages and warnings, I find many situations in the US where the way itself has a name tag of South Apple Tree Road but the house has an addr:street tag of just

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: In looking at its current error messages and warnings, I find many situations in the US where the way itself has a name tag of South Apple Tree Road but the house has an addr:street tag of just Apple Tree Road. This

Re: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name

2014-04-29 Thread Paul Norman
From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:06 PM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap Subject: [Talk-us] OSM Inspector and streets with E/N/S/W in their name I wonder: Is OSMI correct in flagging this for correction, or is this something that