So now instead of having two versions of the name (1. according to the council and 2. according to the sign) we are to have a third version, according to OSM? I am also thinking of our "conventions" with regard to punctuation and abbreviations (not to mention capitalisation), which lead to mappers not copying the sign verbatim into OSM but entering some kind of normalised version. If the sign is "gospel" we need to stop that as well.
If our rules/algorithms lead to so much discussion, maybe it is time to tighten up these rules/algorithms, such that they become as objective as possible, ideally so that anybody applying the same process would come to the same conclusion. According to the National Street Gazetteer, the official source of street names is the local authority in their Local Street Gazetteer which they have to feed into the NSG. Is this the "other database" to which you refer? On 2015-04-03 16:12, John Aldridge wrote: > On 03/04/2015 14:59, Colin Smale wrote: > >> Why not tag both spelling variants? They are both correct in their own frame >> of reference. If it differs to what is "on the ground", we can use >> official_name=* for the name given by the local authority, warts an' all. > > I wouldn't have a problem with this at all, provided the "official" data is > licensed in such a way that we can use it. > > As I recall, however, although the OS map is suitably licensed, it is not > itself definitive, but is derived (perhaps with errors) from another database > which we are not entitled to copy. I don't think there's much value in adding > an os_name=* which may differ from both the ground-truth and the definitive > data. > >> Even council employees and contractors make mistakes occasionally. Should we >> be legitimising and propagating manifest errors by putting the errors into >> OSM? > > Because IMO they're *not* errors in OSM, whose job is to map physical > reality, not to be a repository for various geographic information databases. > I'm aware that not everyone shares this view.
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