So, we are talking about this data : http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/iCN ?
the addressed way's (e.g. buildings ) need to match the streetname they belong to. Structure is always a great thing for data, so it doesn't matter which one. Glenn On 28-09-16 11:08, Marc Gemis wrote: > The order on name can be random. But once you chose e.g. FR - NL, all > the addr:street tags for the addresses in that street have to follow > FR - NL. For another street you can take another order. > > This weird rule of FR - NL or NL - FR as name is something from the > Belgium community. You cannot expect that all tools honour this. How > can a tool know that in this small place on earth the name field is a > concatenation of two names? By using FR - NL as name, you tell all the > tools that the name of the street is "FR - NL". So you have to use > that name everywhere you refer to the name of the street, which means > the field addr:street has to be "FR - NL" as well. > You do not use different names for addr:street and name for roads in > Flanders, do you ? > > IMHO, this is not mapping for the tool, but is mapping in a consistent > way. Once the order is determined for a street, we also agreed not to > change it, so once cleaned up, there is no longer an issue. > > But if people don't care about the first impression people get when > looking up an address in Brussels, fine for me. > But it is already bad enough that when you look for Zutphen in a Dutch > browser, you find "Zütphen". > All those little things might turn people away from OSM... :-( > > m. > > p.s. alternatively, you could use an associatedStreet-relation to > solve this problem. But this is not one of lonvia's preferred > solutions. > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:18 AM, joost schouppe > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm not sure I understand correctly, but isn't the order of languages in the >> general name tags supposed to be random (for political reasons)? If so, >> shouldn't Nominatim be able to deal with this randomness? >> It sounds a bit strange to expect the data to follow the same randomness in >> the name and addr:street for different objects. Then upon every edit of a >> new object, you would have to check which randomly selected order of names >> is present on the street itself. >> >> To me, it looks a bit like "mapping for the tool" if we do clean this up. >> But I might be missing the point. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-be mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
