On Sunday 14 September 2008, Gervase Markham wrote: > Shaun McDonald wrote: > > The nonames map is hosted by CloudMade, we update them from the > > planet file each week. The updates typically appear on a Thursday. > > What is the official way (read: "way that the map will recognise) of > marking a road to say that it actually doesn't have a name, and so > shouldn't appear as "name missing" on the map?
I was just thinking about a similar issue, but with speed limits. How do you tag the fact that there is no speed limit sign on a road (i.e. the road has the default speed limit. Surely I could tag with that default speed limit, but suppose the government changes that default speed limit, I can no longer distinguish between roads that had a speed limit sign and those without it so I cannot automatically fix all the speed limits that have changed. (Note that this is not that exotic, our government is thinking about lowering default maximum speed, and it has happened in the past already). I could also leave out the maxspeed tag, but then we risk that several people will go to the street to look for it, just like when there's no name for the road. I guess there are more issues like this where a feature is absent, and where we need some way to tag this as absent. A noname=yes tag works ok for names, but not for anything else, so we need something more flexible. Perhaps add a "n/a" value to the tags? Greetings Ben _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
