On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:01 PM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14/09/2008 17:45, Andy Allan wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Ed Loach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Gerv wrote: >>> >>>> 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? >>> Could you add the name tag with a blank value (I've not tried this >>> yet). I am guessing it is checking for the name tag and not checking >>> values, though may be wrong. >> >> Please don't try to find things that "work". At the moment there's no >> convention on marking roads that are truely unnamed, and when there's >> a convention established (or more than one, who knows) then the >> nonames map will be updated to use it. The best I've heard so far is >> an additional tag of noname=true, which requires so much mental >> gymnastics that I'm sure we can come up with a better one! > > There are only really three solutions, I think: > > 1. do nothing and don't worry about it > > 2. have a separate tag (as with noname=true) > > 3. have a special value for the name tag (name=none or some such) >
1 or 2... I think 3 is just asking for trouble. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk