The discussion about how to tag a street name is important whether the tags are on the street or in an address.
Can we move toward using relations instead of tagging the street name in each address? Copying the street name into each address is problematic. If we hope to some day have all addresses in OSM, I hope we can come up with a more efficient and consistent way to store a street name, however many tags are used for it, only once per section of same-named street. There are some proposals for how to do this with relations: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:associatedStreet http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Street http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Collected_Ways All of these solve the street name duplication in each address and some also may solve name duplication across different ways of the street. In taginfo, I see there is already some use: 86023 instances of associatedStreet 14921 instances of Street This is still small compared with: 15461897 addr:street Every time I tag addr:street, I wonder how well it works. What will happen when someone decides to expand the name of the street or edit a prefix or suffix? How does an address stay associated with a street when the link between them, the name, can be edited in either place while no change is made to all the other things on this street? Each addr:street could contain its own unintentional variation of the street name. Now that we have embraced relations for highway routes, can we do something similar for street names in addresses? -- Mark Gray http://code.google.com/p/vataviamap/ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
