> which coincidentally can match (or not match) the distance Well noted. The reference to a location marker used in an address rarely gives the exact distance. It is an approximated value with low precision, unlike the tag distance=* that is used with highway=milestone that is supposed to mark the exact distance of a road where distance=* is based on an engineering project, usually with high precision.
> Think of the ‘milestone’ as a point of reference. The ‘milestone’ only > provides a general idea > of how far or how close you are to a destination. > Once you go beyond and reach the next > ‘milestone’ you may need to turn around and go slower to find what you are > seeking. Perfect! That is exactly what happens in real life when someone is seeking an address based on location markers once the precision of the distance used in addresses is low. > Wow, that makes them really useful. It's a road marker that's not made of > stone, shows kilometres > rather than miles, and the number shown is wrong. So you want to call it a > milestone. The number shown is not exactly wrong. It is approximated and its precision can vary up to ~1km because most of the values used in addresses do not show precision in meters. Examples of common values are Km 256, Km 7.5; and never Km 97.47247764, for example. > that you should not use the term "milestone" but something like > addr:distance or > addr:road_marker or whatever, because there are no milestones addr:road_marker seems to be appropriated but highway=milestone, even misleading its name can be, is already in use and I think it would be better to keep a relation between their names. -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/ I do not mind what name would be used as a tag to map this address information as long as a tag is created to map it. However, I understand the need to create a well-named tag that would be applicable worldwide and I hope this does not stop the creation of such tag whatever your name. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
