---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Luke Woolley <lswool...@gmail.com> Date: 4 February 2011 13:02 Subject: Re: [talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute To: Stephen Hope <slh...@gmail.com>
I can tell you now, the other editor has a problem with this. A couple of times I've done name=Ferntree Gully and alt_name=Fern Tree Gully but they have been quickly reverted to their version. I'm going to change it again to the one word versions, PM the other editor, i'll give him the link to this discussion, and then i'll await their reply and go from there. I'll also mention about how generally 'what's on the ground' gets preference over other names if they are different. Whether they want to sign up to the mailing list to participate in this discussion is also something i'll mention. On 4 February 2011 12:08, Stephen Hope <slh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd keep both names - name= and alt_name= ( or old_name=). This is > better for lookup purposes, as either version would then find this > station. And it's not wrong, as it seems the other version was > correct at one time. > > Whether that would be acceptable to the other editor is another problem. > > Stephen > > On 3 February 2011 20:22, Luke Woolley <lswool...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Doesn't happen too often on OSM, unlike Wikipedia, but i've found myself in >> an edit war with another user and I would like some opinions. >> There are two railway stations in outer eastern Melbourne, Ferntree Gully >> and Upper Ferntree Gully. These stations have in the past been named Fern >> Tree Gully and Upper Fern Tree Gully. >> I've been changing the names for a while now to the one word version because >> it's the current public spelling of the station. It's used in newspapers, >> the Metlink (official melbourne public transport) website, virtually any >> signage or publication uses the one word version. I feel that this version >> is warranted on OSM in terms of it being what the station is publicly know >> as at this point in time, and to help with searching (and any future >> implementation of OSM data for journey planning) >> Another user has been changing the station names to the two word version. >> Their explanation is that because the stations were officially named in the >> two word fashion a while back. In recent times, the name changed back to the >> one word version in all known publications and signage, but was not >> officially changed back. >> (http://www.vicsig.net/infrastructure/location/Ferntree-Gully and http://www.vicsig.net/infrastructure/location/Upper-Ferntree-Gully) >> So any opinions as to how I should go about this? >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> Talk-au@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >> >> > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
