On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 12:38 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 12:58 PM Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > No, no. I'm not proposing addr:street on ways at all, only on things > that actually have an address. What I am saying is that noname=yes should > be a trigger to validators that they can't depend on the way to handle > address validation. Just saying that name=County Road 34, ref=CR 34 is > wrong; noname=yes; ref=CR 34 is the way to go. > > OK, and that's where we disagree - one important _suggestion_ that a > validator can make is to point out that there's no similarly-named way > anywhere nearby. At least once I've done the house numbers for a whole > street without remembering to change the name of the street from the > previous one I was working on, and I was glad that the validator > caught it before I uploaded! > > (If you're now going to tell me "don't make mistakes like that!" my > reply is, "Good luck with that one!") > > I think we can both agree that in practice there is no clear consensus > on what to do in the specific case where a road has a reference but no > other name. (That is intended as an entirely neutral statement - not > "Kevin's right" or "Paul's right") I disagree. The wiki had it pretty clearly documented that names aren't refs longer than I've been in the project. People putting refs as names is a more recent, value detracting, invention.
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