I have always assumed that your usage is fine, although I have not tagged this information myself.
However, today chasing up one of the missing locator streets (one I knew had been built, but had not bee in the area for a while) I found that the road is completely lacking any street name signs. Fortunately a couple of the houses have the name of the street as well as the housenumber, so I was able to resolve the name. Cheers, Jerry On 24 January 2015 at 20:33, SomeoneElse <[email protected]> wrote: > Hijacking the thread somewhat, but something that I was wondering about > recently... > > There are many roads that are signed, and we can add them to OSM. Great! > > There are some roads that are signed, and the sign differs from what the > local authority thinks that a road is called (usually just common typos - > no surprise, everyone makes mistakes), and we can add the "wrong" name as a > "not:name". Also great! > > Sometimes something that isn't a name that anyone would ever use to refer > to something creeps into OSM. These usually (eventually) get shunted off > into another key - perhaps "official_name", or something else. > > However, there are names where the name in OSM is what the local authority > uses, and what local people would agree that it is called, but there's no > sign on the ground. How do we reflect that? It's useful to know from a > routing perpective because "turn right on foo street" is of no use if "foo > street" isn't signed as such. It still makes sense for "foo street" to be > in OSM as the name rather than any other key, because everyone agrees that > it is the name - there just isn't a sign for it. > > What's the best way to tag this? Currently I've been using > "name:signed=no" (and "ref:signed=no" where the road ref isn't signed). Is > there a better / more accepted way of doing this? > > Cheers, > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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