2012/8/2 Lester Caine <[email protected]>: > iONiX wrote: >>>> >>What when street is renamed and you want to send a letter, or some poi >>>> >>is located there and have its official address with new name, but old >>>> >>signs are still installed (for months or years). Do You really still >>>> >>want to rely on those old signs on the street? > If they are currently NOT showing what is on the sign then YES, and in my > book that is not even up for discussion! > If I can't photograph what appears on the base map ... it's wrong, and > should be tagged as that so it can be fixed ...
we have a similar issue for road reference numbers in Italy (or at least in parts of Italy), where the maintenance of some national roads passed from the country to the regions (or provinces), resulting in a change of the official refs from (e.g.) SS7 to SR7, or in other cases the ref was simply changed (e.g. from "GRA" to "A90" in the case of the circular motorway around Rome (GrandeRaccordoAnnulare). This is even documented in the English wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Raccordo_Anulare ("The official number among the Italian motorways is A90, although barely known and not found anywhere on road signs. It's widely known by Romans as Il Raccordo.") As these changes have already happened (on the paper) in some cases 10 years and more ago and still the road signs show the old refs (in many cases, not in all), we decided to change these refs back to what is still on the signs, and to record the official reference number in a tag "official_ref". Hereby the map consumers get the information they need when following street signs, and the mappers don't have to dig deep into administrative details if they don't want to (on the ground rule). For the Belarussian case this would mean to keep in name what is on the signs (if they are consistent and not half new half old) and to put the now official name in a tag "official_name". cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
