Sarah Hoffmann

A crowd-sourced street name alias database would be certainly be an interesting project. It is not something I would collect in our wiki, though. Even the abbreviation page you cite...

Yes, that's still relevant although for the moment I would keep to a). The taginfo idea would be more relevant if we wanted to start supplying precomputed special-terms lists instead...

Last time I checked there was still an anomaly that needed looking into.

I'm not entirely sure how you imagine this works license-wise. OSM data is under ODbL and as a share-alike license, it would 'contaminate' any additional data when they are imported...

As the docs say "This feature is currently undocumented and potentially broken." There is a good chance it will go away completely when the API gets rewritten in Python. This...

This can only happen in updates nowadays and even then it should be rare. The problem is that we create lots of threads for stage 1b and then only one...

Do you like to do a quick PR? I can't promise that we take it as is but it would be easier to discuss the implications with the actual code.

According to taginfo there are around 140k relations with type=site of which 70k are site=geodesic (some French import). That leaves 70k additional objects, which is doable. It should be possible...

> > what to do with the members > Treat ways like areas as in MPs, and ignore nodes? That part is clear. The question is, if the members should...

I'm strongly against addr:interpolation on nodes in conjunction with housenumber because it makes the housenumber tag ambiguous. House numbers with hyphens in it do exist, example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/285077586. That means that...