Hi, I have edited wiki page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:alt_name
should this first go through some suggestion process?
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2009/9/21 Valent Turkovic :
> Hi, I have edited wiki page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:alt_name
>
> should this first go through some suggestion process?
Isn't this what loc_name is for?
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On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:29:08 +0100, Matt Williams wrote:
> Isn't this what loc_name is for?
Do you have some examples for loc_name usage? It could be that we could
use loc_name instead of alt_name.
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> Hi, I have edited wiki page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:alt_name
>
> should this first go through some suggestion process?
It should probably have been redirecting to Key:name like int_name,
nat_name, reg_name etc do, especially as alt_name on Map Features
links to Key:name.
How
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Hi, I have edited wiki page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:alt_name
>
> should this first go through some suggestion process?
Just to make this somewhat clearer for others
In the Balkans there are numerous examples of government and language
2009/9/21 Liz :
> So the street or place might be known locally by an old communist-era name
> (say Tito Street) but have been officially renamed after some other
> international dignitary (say Mother Teresa). So while I might say "you'll find
> me in Tito Street", when I'd put my address on an en
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, John Smith wrote:
> 2009/9/21 Liz :
> > So the street or place might be known locally by an old communist-era
> > name (say Tito Street) but have been officially renamed after some other
> > international dignitary (say Mother Teresa). So while I might say "you'll
> > find me i
2009/9/21 Elizabeth Dodd :
> and two others I can't reproduce as I haven't got any non-Roman script on my
> computer
> making 9 names / spellings of the name
Sounds like a fun thing to try and tag, most apps would only expect
name=* some would also deal with name:en=* etc I have no idea how to
ta
> Just to make this somewhat clearer for others
> In the Balkans there are numerous examples of government and language change,
> together with complete alteration in the social order.
>
> So the street or place might be known locally by an old communist-era name
> (say Tito Street) but have b
I think that alt_name is useful to add variants of the name for searching.
Often there is an abbreviated and a full version of the same name, and one
is not any more 'official' than the other. This is often the case with
churches.
For streets that have been renamed, I would prefer a former_name
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Axel Jacobs wrote:
> You should go by the street signs. Whatever they indicate is the official
> name ('name=').
This assumes there are street signs.
sometimes the wiping our process removes all the signs but fails to put up new
ones
(and this week, our street signs have disap
2009/9/21 Axel Jacobs :
> You should go by the street signs. Whatever they indicate is the official
> name ('name=').
no, it is an indeece for the official name, but they can have errors
as well, are sometime abbreviated, etc. The official name in Germany
is the one the street is officially named
2009/9/21 John Smith :
> 2009/9/21 Elizabeth Dodd :
>
>> and two others I can't reproduce as I haven't got any non-Roman script on my
>> computer
>> making 9 names / spellings of the name
>
> Sounds like a fun thing to try and tag, most apps would only expect
> name=* some would also deal with name
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