On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> The TIGER tags are not exactly standard OSM tags that belong in the >> database. Better that we get rid of them at the same time as we expand >> abbreviations. > > Although the tiger:* keys aren't standard, the information they store is > very useful. There are plenty of people that might want to know the > different parts of a road name, so we should simply rename these tags > instead of completely blowing the data away.
I guess that's okay too, though personally I get so annoyed by the redundant data (*) that I couldn't be bothered. Why street relations never caught on is beyond me. (*) I.E. adding base_name=Main to the 100 different ways that Main Street is split up into. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
