On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 13:26, santamariense <imagens...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > that you should not use the term "milestone" but something like > > addr:distance or > > addr:road_marker or whatever, because there are no milestones > > addr:road_marker seems to be appropriated Or something with similar meaning. Places that use this addressing system presumably have some name for that part of an address. So that if you tell somebody what road your house is on and they want to know more precisely, they ask you what your X is. I doubt they ask you what your milestone is. Same for forms where there are boxes for road, town, county (maybe) post/zip code (maybe), there is presumably a box labelled X, and I doubt that label is "milestone." Also of consideration is that if somebody uses the query tool of standard carto to get the address of a house, will addr:milestone make any sense to them or will it just confuse them? I did some more digging (which the original poster should have done, if not at first then at least after several people suggested "milestone" was inappropriate). What OSM calls highway=milestone is a "highway location marker." Which is used in addresses as a "linear referencing system." So addr:highway_location or addr:linear_reference or addr:road_marker or something similar based upon what people who live in areas with that kind of address call that part of the address. but highway=milestone, even > misleading its name can be, is already in use and I think it would be > better to keep a relation between their names. > On standard carto (and probably most others) highway=milestone doesn't render. And those milestones-that-aren't-really-milestones are probably only rarely mapped, whereas addresses frequently are mapped. In any case, as people have pointed out, the highway location markers either side of the address may not be present. So the only reason for keeping a relation between the names is if we're going to map every marker and use an OSM relation to bind addresses to markers (which will still fail if there's no marker present). -- Paul
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