On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Phil! Gold <phi...@pobox.com> wrote: > * David ``Smith'' <vidthe...@gmail.com> [2010-05-14 23:58 -0400]: >> 5) The value of "addr:street=*" should contain the abbreviated form of >> the street name according to USPS standards, regardless of the way the >> street name is signed. > > The point of addr:street is to associate the address to a particular road, > so its value needs to match the name of the road. (There's also the > associatedStreet relation, but more people use the addr:street tag.)
As Frederik already asserted, that's incorrect. But if for some reason you need to associate an object with a street without using an AssociatedStreet relation, you could always give the street its own addr:street tag with the same value as all of the objects along it, which uses the same USPS-based abbreviation. But I'm not sure what is accomplished by associating objects with the street they're on. (As far as I know, the original point of the associatedStreet relation was to automatically imply addr:street values for all of the objects by using the street's name or addr:street value. What you said is kind of backwards from that.) -- David "Smith" a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. Bír'd'in Does this font make me look fat? _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us