Coolman Commons Condominiums is not the name of a road in Boston. Please avoid adding invented street names unless they’re supported by signage or official sources. For clarity, the buildings in that complex are numbered 239, 241, 245, and 251, which aligns with the existing numbering on Norfolk Street.

Thanks for the follow-up. To answer your question about my objection: my point is simply that the Wiki’s current guidance treats two different posted names as separate directional names, not as “multiple values of name.”=* The name:left / name:right tags exist specifically to avoid merging distinct names into one field.

The semicolon or slash patterns are older approaches, and the modern examples leave name=* empty in this situation.

So to stay consistent with that, I removed the combined name=* and kept the directional names.

Appreciate the discussion!

Thanks for the explanation. Based on the OSM Wiki, name:left and name:right are the correct tags when a road genuinely has different names on each side. In those cases, the name tag should not contain multiple values or use “;”.

The Wiki example you referenced (Cincinnati) actually shows that when a road has different names on each side, the proper tagging is:
• name:left=*
• name:right=*
• and the name tag is omitted, not a semicolon list.

The semicolon format is for multiple values of the same key, not for representing two distinct official names. So once name:left and name:right are added, the name tag should be removed rather than combining them with “;”.

Please update the tagging to follow that structure.

According to the OSM Wiki (“Names” tagging guidelines), the name tag must contain one single name and must not use separators like “;”. If multiple names exist, they should be handled with appropriate tags (e.g., alt_name, loc_name). Please correct the name value accordingly.