On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:20 AM Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> 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.) > > > Please stop. This gets very annoying for data consumers (especially your > average joe just using a satnav). Fix your validation process instead.
In my defense, there's nothing to stop. To the best of my knowledge, I've never added such a way, merely refrained from modifying that particular field from the TIGER import. -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
