On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:49 AM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:09 AM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> (1) The `name=*` field gets the road's actual name. If the road's only > >> name is 'County Route 12' (New York consistently uses 'Route' rather > >> than 'Road' for these), to the extent that `addr:street=*` will show > >> that for the name, then `name=*` gets that name. (Yes I know that > >> there are mappers who would prefer `noname=yes` in that situation, but > >> address validation has an easier time with the way I do it.) > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:20 AM Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > Please stop. This gets very annoying for data consumers (especially > your average joe just using a satnav). Fix your validation process instead. > > I knew you were going to say that. The sentiment seems to run about > equally between 'fix the navigation software not to read the ref > twice,' and 'fix software that recognizes street addresses to deal > with the fact that an address of '2367 County Route 34' might need to > be translated to a ref=*'. > addr:street= should be tagged anyway, and that's where you can put your "County Route 34". Attempting to infer this based off the nearest street should be a last resort because, at least in the US, it's not uncommon for what the street's actually named and signed to be *radically* different than the postal address's street name for simplicity or brevity's sake. This solves both problems.
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