There are some cases where naming link roads makes sense. For example, I tag the roads coming out of roundabouts as link roads (especially if it's something like a residential road intersecting, a note important road like a secondary road, and I tag the slip roads for that leg of the roundabout as secondary_link), and it is pretty helpful for routing purposes to name the link roads in that case. Also helpful if the link roads represent a RIRO (right-in, right-out) intersection.
-Evin (compdude) On Tue, Jul 3, 2018, 9:28 AM OSM Volunteer stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > 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 >
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