Naming Convention for Israel street names

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@Mr_Israel

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@Mr_Israel

• I hope you agree that a Herzl boulevard is not the same as a Herzl street …
  So how could you find out the difference between it when searching?

In Israel (in contrast to the UK,) there are no 2 roads with the same name in the same city.
The only exception is “Bialik” and “Sderon Chen” in Tel Aviv, and I don’t believe people get confused by the them…

If anything, then sometimes the same name appearing in 2 different cities are actually a continuation of the same way.
e.g. Jabotinski in Ramat Gan, Bnei Brak, and Petah Tikva.

If the street appears just ONE time in two city its worth it to write always Rehov in all street names.

How did you get to this conclusion?

@Mr_Israel

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I believe we should compare ourselves to other Israeli maps, and not OSM maps of other countries,
if we want our map to be used by the general public.
We cannot invent our own standard, we have to use the local standard.

Please don’t talk about standards when talking about Israeli maps.
The Israeli maps are normally written in Microsoft Standard for Internet Explorer. So I can’t even open them in my web- conform browser.

Once there was a searchengine website that was not created like a portal. It was just giving you a box for the search term and a “go” button.
This was not standard in those times. Today Google is THE STANDARD worldwide!

I don’t believe google is a standard, but in any case, google doesn’t show “rehov” either:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=he&geocode=&q=32.0862+34.8112&sll=32.089937,34.81282&sspn=0.006599,0.009613&ie=UTF8&ll=32.086929,34.789689&spn=0.006481,0.009656&z=17

@Mr_Israel

@talkat

Recently we got some publicity (e.g. in Ynet last Sunday,) and people go in and check the map.
If the map doesn’t look like what people here are used to - They will not use it.

I aspect Israelies to be intelegent enough to understand the power of this project and that its a global project and not like “freemaps” a Only Israel one.
User will not avoid OSM because we are writing the streetname in a map like it is shown on the street sign.

AGAIN: The look of the map should not effect what information are saved in the street name.
We should always write down everything including the Rehov! No matter how it looks later in the map itself.
We will find a solution for this 'problem’of unneded information in a streetname later.

If the map is cumbersome, and street names are truncated because “rehov” has to be written, then we achieve nothing,
even if the DB is complete.

To repeat my position:
I agree that the db should be as complete as possible,
but NOT on the expense of the usability of the map,
or by breaking basic IT rules, like having the data in the DB in a normalized way.