I'm struggling to word this reply without being labelled racist or discriminatory, but I believe the English names should remain and the "alt_name" field be used for local names. Anything else will render OSM data unusable to the majority of people in this country.
Ian On 6/6/23 8:06 am, Tom Brennan wrote: > There are an increasing number of places/features in NSW that are getting > dual (aboriginal) naming. > > For example: > - Booraghee / Bradleys Head > - Cooyoyo / The Castle > - Fort Denison / Muddawahnyuh > > From the point of view of the Geographic Names Board, there doesn't appear to > be any primacy given > to one name or the other. > > Is there a view as to how to record these in OSM? > > The specific aboriginal language is not necessarily known. > > There are obviously tags like 'alt_name' that can be used to store a second > name, but not sure if > that's most appropriate in cases like this. > > cheers > Tom > ---- > Canyoning? try http://ozultimate.com/canyoning > Bushwalking? try http://bushwalkingnsw.com > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
