This is a better, cleaner query, accounts for addr:street nodes as well

http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/iCO


On 28-09-16 11:44, Glenn Plas wrote:
> 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
>> <joost.schou...@gmail.com> 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.
>>>
>>>
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