fr. den 12. 07. 2013 klokka 10.05 (+0200) skreiv Martin Koppenhoefer: > - Names will be conflated with existing elements where > possible, overwriting existing names with the official and > registered alternate spellings >
> IMHO you shouldn't overwrite in OSM existing names without local > knowledge. Better add the SSR-names as "official_name" in case of > incongruences. All the objects/names will semi-manually imported. That is, each and every imported object will be added as a new node or merged with an existing node or area by a human being. This will preferably be done by a person with (at least some) local knowledge, and who can use her/his judgement when deciding how to handle the names. > -1, "name" in OSM is usually the name as local people use it and not > the name how it is "accepted" according to an official entity. Have > you discussed this issue with the local community and is there > consensus to accept SSR as the one and only instance for "correct" > Norwegian names? Note that Norway may differ from other countries in that we have a detailed and strict ‘law of place names’, where each place name have one (or in some cases several) names. These are the *only* legal names for the objects, and is used on all maps, on road signs &c. (Of course both signs and maps may be outdated, or have accidental misspellings.) There is a complicated procedure for getting a name into the official place name database, starting at the local municipality level, and involving experts in toponomy before final approval. Because of this, we see the names from the official place name database as *the* correct names, which should therefore be used in the ‘name’ and ‘alt_name’ tags. Other local variants can and should be listed in the loc_name, old_name, short_name, … tags. > source:name=Sentralt stadnamnregister, Kartverket > > no-kartverket-ssr:url=http://url-to-factsheet > > no-kartverket-ssr:objid=12345 > > no-kartverket-ssr:date=2012-06-08 > this metadata really should go on the changeset and not be tagged on > object level, at least source, no-kartverket-ssr:url and > no-kartverket-ssr:date Except for ‘source:name’, this metadata is integral to each object, and is needed for keeping OSM in synch with the place name database. The ‘objid’ is needed for matching OSM objects with the place name database, so that we are able to remove, add or change objects whenever the place name database is updated. Note that the date is *not* the date of the import, but the date of the last change for that object in the place name database. Whenever this changes in the place name database, the OSM object will usually need updating. We will maintain a list of all OSM objects that need updating/maintenance, based on the ‘objid’ + ‘date’ information. The URL is not strictly needed, but is *very* convenient for people editing the database, for learning the source of the correct name/spelling and other details on the object. Otherwise the names or even the existence of the object may be confusing. ‘source:name’ can be put on the changeset, but isn’t it customary to include source information directly in OSM? -- Karl Ove Hufthammer http://huftis.org/ Jabber: k...@huftis.org _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
