While I don't have "a dog in this fight," I also read our wiki which says "Link roads NORMALLY do not have names." (Emphasis mine). In the unusual (abnormal?) cases where they do (and I trust Paul wouldn't have added them unless they do), there is no contradiction with our wiki, rather an unusual case which isn't "normal." In my opinion, that's OK.
We should follow what our wiki says, in this case it leave a bit of "wiggle room" to name a link road. Paul has named some link roads where it appears they do have such names in the real world, and I see no inconsistency. Sometimes a datum in OSM will LACK all the tags it should, because some are not known. That's not great, but it's OK: mappers who come along later can add these (and improve this and other features in our map), this is called "growing our map." Sometimes an ADDITIONAL datum exists in the real world and is added to a feature even when this is unusual (though not incorrect) as many other similar data do not have this additional datum. That's OK; I see no inconsistency. Our wiki strives to hit the sweet spot of accommodating what is in the real world and how we should tag such data in our map. It is a guide, not absolutely strict doctrine. I say this because we have "plastic tagging" that encourages us to tag accurately while allowing flexibility. Especially in early versions, we may not always write our wiki as 100% correct, and so wikis grow, change and evolve to accomplish this. If the wiki needs updating to note that unusually, but in certain parts of the world, link roads sometimes get names, I encourage you to update it: we'll all benefit. Writing/contributing to wiki is easy, though it can be tricky: you want to channel consensus without being too strictly doctrinaire in a direction which would hobble contributions or just plain encourage/teach others to enter them wrongly. It is meant to guide us, not preach to us as an absolute. Where it is wrong, or one or more believe it wrong or out-of-date with real world data, please use the Discussion page built into each wiki to discuss with others any potential changes to existing wiki. The "right thing" (better written wiki) usually happens soon after such discussion. SteveA California OSM Volunteer since 2009 and serious contributor to not only our map's data, but our wiki, too _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
