Re: [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

2009-01-27 Thread Russ Nelson
On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Manfred Podzkiewitz wrote: Hello, i have a question about the handling of unoffical, or ethnic, or historic names of towns and villages. The TIGER import in the USA uses name_1 for alternate names. Perhaps we should view all tags starting with name as

Re: [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

2009-01-27 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Manfred Podzkiewitz wrote: Hello, i have a question about the handling of unoffical, or ethnic, or historic names of towns and villages. The TIGER import in the USA uses name_1 for alternate

Re: [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

2009-01-27 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:50:37PM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote: On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Manfred Podzkiewitz wrote: Hello, i have a question about the handling of unoffical, or ethnic, or historic names of towns and villages. The TIGER import in the USA uses name_1 for alternate

Re: [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

2009-01-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 19:57 +, Andy Allan wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Manfred Podzkiewitz wrote: Hello, i have a question about the handling of unoffical, or ethnic, or historic names of towns and

Re: [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

2009-01-27 Thread Yann Coupin
Le 27 janv. 09 à 21:02, Simon Ward a écrit : This doesn’t account for multiple names in the same language, though. I can also imagine a place having several old names over time, while old_name=* really only allows for one. The general rule in OSM is that multiple values for a tag must be

Re: [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

2009-01-27 Thread Frank Mohr
Andy Allan wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Manfred Podzkiewitz wrote: Hello, i have a question about the handling of unoffical, or ethnic, or historic names of towns and villages. The TIGER import in the USA uses

Re: [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

2009-01-27 Thread Matthias Julius
Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk writes: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:50:37PM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote: On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Manfred Podzkiewitz wrote: Hello, i have a question about the handling of unoffical, or ethnic, or historic names of towns and villages. The TIGER import

Re: [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

2009-01-27 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:36:08PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: This doesn’t account for multiple names in the same language, though. I can also imagine a place having several old names over time, while old_name=* really only allows for one. IMHO there really needs to be a well defined

Re: [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

2009-01-27 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:36:08PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: This doesn't account for multiple names in the same language, though. I can also imagine a place having several old names over time, while old_name=*

Re: [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

2009-01-27 Thread Matthias Julius
Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk writes: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:36:08PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: That's actually error prone if someone enters a semicolon who doesn't know about the rule. I think that should better be reversed or '\;' be used as separator because this is much less

Re: [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

2009-01-27 Thread Andreas Fritsche
Hi, The general rule in OSM is that multiple values for a tag must be separated by a semicolon. [..] Another general rule in OSM is that OSM only maps features that are _currently there_. Why should we bother with old city names. They are replaced and thus obsolete. There is no Leningrad any