From OpenStreetMap

left_name

Status: Proposed

Proposed-by: Patou

Tagging: left_name=*

Applies-to: linear

Definition: for street with different name on the two sides

Rendered-as:

Proposed-Date: 2008-05-22

RFC-Start:

Vote-Start:

Vote-End:

Contents 1 Proposal 1.1 Rationale 1.1.1 Applies to 1.1.2 Related to 1.1.3 Rendering 1.1.4 Tag 1.1.5 Usage 1.2 Remarks 1.3 Comments 2 Opinion 3 Vote

Proposal

Rationale

There is some situations where the names of the two sides of a street are not the same. This often apply when a street is a boundary between two city. In this case name=name1;name2 is not a good solution as there is no way to know witch name belong to witch city.

Here is an example [1]

This as been discussed on the english mailing list [2].

Applies to

Linear.

Related to

Name.

Rendering

If tag "name" is set use it.

If tag "name" is unset use "left_name/right_name"

Tag

Tag	Description
left_name=name1	Name of the left side of the road.
right_name=name2	Name of the right side of the road.

Usage

<tag k="left_name" v="Neville Terrace"/>
<tag k="right_name" v="Selwood Terrace">

Remarks

This tag has already some use (ex: Germany and UK)

- http://etricceline.de/osm/germany/tags.htm

    name_left x23
    name_right x54

- http://etricceline.de/osm/united-kingdom/tags.htm

    name_left x24
    name_right x23

Comments

Please use the discussion page for comments.

Opinion

Not for the moment.

Vote

Not open.