On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Ben Laenen <benlae...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 09 November 2012 09:44:19 A.Pirard.Papou wrote: >> I found names on the borders and I queried the Tagging@osm mailing list >> about them. The boundary way name is not used by the database, say some >> people. And it seems to me that most say it shouldn't be used because the >> others say so. I found no very convincing reason why it must not be used. >> Does it hurt? > > Probably doesn't hurt except for unnecessary rendering of those names in many > maps, like the main Mapnik map (but yeah, don't tag for the renderer etc.). > > But we can do what we often do with items we want to identify but don't really > have names: use the note=* tag instead. It won't make a difference in JOSM as > the note tag will be displayed instead if there's no name tag.
I'm glad you brought it up, because otherwise I'd have had to again. This is the same problem we had with node networks, and whether or not the connecting segments get a name. - Jw _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
