Good point. We do need a convention that the routing engines can follow.
alt_name, reg_name, nat_name, loc_name etc don't seem to be the solution as per
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name. Relations would seem to be a good
approach as you can easily link up streets and roads to form a route.
Regards
Neil
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From: Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Neil Penman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, 1 December, 2008 10:34:34 PM
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Dual Named Roads
When routing over a long distance, you probably want to avoid: straight on
Interstate Highway, straight on Main Street, straight on Interstate Highway,
straight on Main Road, straight on Interstate Highway, etc.
But when routing locally, you probably want to have the local name of the
street.
Perhaps -
name: Baker Street
alt_name or reg_name: Midland Highway
~Cameron
2008/12/1 Neil Penman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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