On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Karl Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Alex Mauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> > SteveC wrote:
>> >> I'd like to define some roads that really don't have a name so that
>> >> they drop off the noname map.
>> >>
>> >>       http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/no-names/
>> >>
>> >> I've been adding noname:yes but I can see that might not be optimal.
>> >> Maybe name:__none__. Or something.
>> >
>> > Sounds overcomplicated to me.  If you know something to be correct, just
>> > ignore the warnings.
>>
>>
>> But how do you tell someone else that it's correct?
>> If I see there is an unnamed street I may go out of my way to find its
>> name, only to discover it doesn't have one.... and that about 300
>> different people before me have done the same thing.
>>
>> Dave
>
> What about borrowing an idea from the TIGER import and have a "reviewed=yes"
> tag? That would indicate that the information present has been independently
> checked. This doesn't directly address the "no name" issue but it might
> prevent 299 unnecessary visits.


Maybe, but you're then asking, "reviewed what/how?". And you're back
to specifying that you've reviewed that the road has no name, only
probably in a more complicated way.

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