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Street renders with reference but no name #3279

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 4 comments
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Street renders with reference but no name #3279

openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 4 comments

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Reporter: Envite
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 5.10pm, Monday, 11th October 2010]

A street's name is way more important (both for routing and for map rendering) than its reference, since while motorways are usually signaled by their references (like A-7 instead of Autova del Mediterrneo) city streets are, on the other hand, signaled by their names (like Calle Santiago Cuadrado instead of 17-1095 which is its municipal reference number).

But, as you can see in tile http://b.tile.openstreetmap.org/18/119191/109413.png of street http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/25589011, if a city street has both name and ref (and streets use to have municipal reference codes which should be tagged) rendering the ref obscures completely the name, or in the near street http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/25818397 (in the same tile and near ones) the ref gets rendered way more prominent than name.

For highways of types related to cities (like residential or pedestrian), names should be rendered with less priority and less size than references.

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Author: Envite
[Added to the original trac issue at 5.17pm, Monday, 11th October 2010]

Typo:

For highways of types related to cities (like residential or pedestrian), names should NOT be rendered with less priority and less size than references.

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Author: Ldp
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.29pm, Wednesday, 13th October 2010]

Municipal reference numbers should not be mapped as ref=*, unless it's also in use as the real ref as found on road signs.

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Author: Envite
[Added to the original trac issue at 7.24pm, Wednesday, 13th October 2010]

So how to tag municipal references if not using ref=* ?

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Author: Ldp
[Added to the original trac issue at 8.15pm, Wednesday, 13th October 2010]

That's for you to find out, but if you use ref=* for them, don't be surprised when they actually show up on the map.

As a quick suggestion, have a look at this page and see how other people handle refs:
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/search?search=ref

ref:municipal=* perhaps?

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