[Tagging] Is a reference a name if it is actually used as a name on the ground ?

2016-02-05 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Hello from Senegal - talk...@openstreetmap.org has a question about which we would like tagging@openstreetmap.org's opinion before we settle it for good. For residential streets, we have a well-known and documented naming scheme as follows: - name=* bears the official name - loc_name=* bears

Re: [Tagging] Is a reference a name if it is actually used as a name on the ground ?

2016-02-05 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Sat, 2016-02-06 at 00:14 +0100, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > For residential streets, we have a well-known and documented naming > scheme as follows: > > - name=* bears the official name > - loc_name=* bears a local name, which is often an old name but what > matters is that it is a locally wel

Re: [Tagging] Is a reference a name if it is actually used as a name on the ground ?

2016-02-05 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 06.02.2016 um 00:14 schrieb Jean-Marc Liotier : > > What does tagging@openstreetmap.org think about that ? I think ref should be a number or systematic scheme, names should go into name tags (and variations). If there isn't a name officially you could still add a loc_