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 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:
Occasionally, in the US, the value of ref=* is used similarly to a name. ("Turn right onto US 59", etc.) I see no issue with leaving name=* blank in those situations, unless mail is actually addressed to something like 1234 GY-63, Somecity, Senegal. It is not uncommon for rural roads at least in the US to have only a ref=* and no name=*. However, sometimes there are things like name="County Road 123" and ref="CR 123". -- skquinn <skquinn@localhost> _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging