On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Yves yvecai@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't there a consensus to have what is written on street plates in the 'name' tag ?
I hope not, personally. Street plates are very inconsistent even in a single village.
I know of at least one case in Givisiez where two plates on the same street have a different name on them, because of a typo.
And in les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, which I mapped recently, some plates are in capitals only without accents (e.g. "RUE DES MELEZES" [the last word should be Mélèzes]), others are in capitals only but with accents (e.g. "RUE DES CRÔTETS") and the more recent ones are only capitalized, and with accents. There's even a funny case where two adjacent plates follow two different conventions despite the fact that the street names are almost the same: the two plates read "RUE DES FRÊNES" and "RUE DES FRENES-DESSOUS" (notice the lack of accent in the second plate). I think we should strive for something better and more consistent in OSM, fixing obvious errors and agreeing on one convention for capitalization.
Michel.