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 street might be
referred to and I don't believe they will be rendered by Mapnik or Osmarender.
So for example in Castlemaine your address might be Baker Street, Castlemaine.
Its not going to be Midland Highway, Castlemaine even though the Midland
Highway uses Baker street as it passes through. Any printed map of the town,
should in my opinion show the street as Baker Street not Midland Highway
Regards
Neil
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From: Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Neil Penman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, 1 December, 2008 9:41:28 PM
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Dual Named Roads
You can use things like loc_name (local name) and alt_name (alternative name.)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Naming
~Cameron
2008/12/1 Neil Penman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 a recognised standard approach to this problem?
Regards
Neil Penman
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