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 a local name, which is often an old name but what
matters is that it is a locally well used name
- ref=* bears a government official universal reference, which
abbreviates the district and suffixes it with a number (for example "GY-63")
So far, so good. Now, the problem is that not all streets have a name -
actually most streets are unnamed, so value of the ref=* is actually
what people use as a name... It is not a name but it is used as a name.
If it quacks like a duck... So here is the dilemma:
On the one hand, the content of ref=* is not officially a name - so one
might argue that it has no title to being the content of name=*
On the other hand, the content of ref=* is used as a name - so it may
just as well be argued that it is legitimate as a name=* value.
So here is the proposal so far most popular with the
talk...@openstreetmap.org crowd: if no proper name=* exists, then the
value of ref=* is copied to name=* - but of course any name that might
be surveyed at a later time will overwrite that.
What does tagging@openstreetmap.org think about that ?
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