On 4/29/14 4:08 PM, Phil! Gold wrote:
> * Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> [2014-04-29 21:05 +0200]:
>> In looking at its current error messages and warnings, I find many
>> situations in the US where the way itself has a name tag of "South Apple
>> Tree Road" but the house has an addr:street tag of just "Apple Tree
>> Road". This leads to a "street not found" error.
addr:street should probably be compared to both name and alt_name
>
> (The reverse is more interesting; if a house has address "15 South Apple
> Tree Road" but the street signs on that road say, "Apple Tree Road", I
> don't think there's complete consensus on how to tag that, though the most
> common approach, from what I've seen, is to name the road's way "South
> Apple Tree Road".)
>
and i'd probably be inclined to put the signed version in name, and the
alternate in alt_name

richard

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