Hi Val, you send the mail to me only, you might want to resend to list. On 8 April 2010 08:31, Val Kartchner <[email protected]> wrote: > 5) Should suggestions be given to renderers to use the USPS > abbreviations?
Another possibility is to use the TIGER guidelines, if the USPS list has issues related to copyright. > b) I have used the alternate names (name, name_1, name_2, etc.) for > alternates which would include expansions of the abbreviations. Should > we establish a standard for how these are used and their order? For > instance, north of 200 North, Washington Blvd is also 400 East and State > Route 235 (though I know that routes are now tagged by relations). There's also some confusion with what name_N tags are used for in TIGER imports vs. the rest of OSM. There are different tags for the different names according to their type: loc_name= for a not-necessarily official name, but used by locals, official_name=, alt_name= int_name= (I'm not sure what this one is for) ref= reg_ref= while in TIGER all of these are stuffed into name_N= tags as same level citizens in seemingly random order. I think maybe the _N convention should only be used for different possible spellings of the same name, while things like National Forest Development Road 0160 should be put in ref= or reg_ref=, and things like US Highway 30 removed completely and moved to relation's name. And things like Cemetery Road into loc_name unless name is empty. Cheers, Andrew _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
