I concur. You could also put Harvey as an alt_name tag. -- Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology
On May 23, 2016 1:03:15 PM EDT, Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote: >Salt Lake City just renamed a part of 900 South to ‘Harvey Milk >Boulevard’. This is a so-called ‘honorary designation’. But now I see a >conflict. > >1) The common tagging practice is that posted names rule. The signs >changed to show the new honorary name: >https://goo.gl/photos/xqAxQCwCmPRUGWkm9 ><https://goo.gl/photos/xqAxQCwCmPRUGWkm9> . So that would suggest I >change the name to ‘Harvey Milk Boulevard’ and demote ‘900 South’ to >name_1 or loc_name. >2) Addressing and geocoding. People will continue to refer to this >street as 900 South. Official addresses will not change. That would >suggest that I leave the name=900 South in place and add name_1=Harvey >Milk Boulevard. > >I went with option 2, here is a segment —> >https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/418190301 ><https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/418190301> > >Opinions? > >Martijn > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-us mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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