Re: [OSM-talk] Searching and alt_name

2008-05-01 Thread David Earl
On 01/05/2008 13:11, Dan Karran wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:44 AM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It's usually POIs affected, and it is usually just variations in names >> rather than completely different names (when you would probably want >> them rendered anyway). Occasional

Re: [OSM-talk] Searching and alt_name

2008-05-01 Thread Dan Karran
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:44 AM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's usually POIs affected, and it is usually just variations in names > rather than completely different names (when you would probably want > them rendered anyway). Occasionally though street names also have this > prob

[OSM-talk] Searching and alt_name

2008-05-01 Thread David Earl
I'd like to encourage you, when editing the map, to think about how people might search for the features you are adding to the map and try to accommodate them, to try to be helpful to future consumers of the map data. Using alt_name is one way to do this. The namefinder already deals automatically