This topic has been dropped without it having been resolved. We still need some way of addressing the issues summarized in "http://vidthekid.info/misc/osm-abbr.html". This can be summarized as needing to create fields for:
direction prefix street name street type direction suffix This is needed for exactly the same reason that no abbreviations are supposed to be used in OSM: There is no automated way to fix the parts of a street name. For instance, here are some actual addresses which occur in this area: Number Prefix Street Name Type Suffix 200 West North Temple Street 200 East South Temple Street 200 North West Temple Street 50 East North Lakeview Drive 50 East South Lakeview Drive 2450 North E Street 300 Southgate Drive 4700 West 3300 Street South These are just samples, but others on this list have come up with other examples that demonstrate the problems with the current way of doing things. Also, in the last example given above, the "Type" and "Suffix" would be swapped, but in most written addresses the "Type" would be dropped. - Val - _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us