At 2012-02-17 14:32, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
If the directional prefixes are not generally used as part of the name, they should probably not be in the name tag, but instead as an address tag (I've used addr:direction e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/140789671).
and I've used addr:street_direction_prefix, though if I had to defend it, it's probably more accurately named addr:housenumber_direction_suffix .
I am a proponent of separating each part of the "street" into a separate field, the way it is done in most other addressing databases - separate fields for the number direction, street root, street type, and street direction suffix.
While it is abnormal, I would not be opposed to a concatenated street field alongside it. If the user enters that field only, the editor could split it up and populate the separate fields for the user to see and approve. If the user enters the separate fields, it could populate the concatenated field.
The bot being discussed could populate these separate fields too, since it needs to get some sense of which part goes where in order to correctly do any expansion.
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