On 1 Jun 2010, at 12:18, Ed Avis wrote: > Peter Miller <peter.mil...@...> writes: > >> We have created a map layer for Potlatch showing OS Locator names >> which are not in the nearby OSM data in a nice visual way. > >> Note our proposed 'not:name' tag for suppressing errors in OS Locator >> data. > > I have sometimes used incorrect_name for noting mistakes in street > names. > The intention was that if somebody tagged it wrongly, it's likely that > somebody could also do a search for the incorrect name. OSM search > engines > might want to use incorrect_name for a 'did you mean...' suggestion. > > It might be useful to distinguish slight spelling mistakes (such as > the > "Arthurs Close" mentioned) against cases where OS has a totally > different > name for the same bit of street. For variant spellings, there is no > harm > in adding them all as incorrect_name, alt_name or whatever. But I > would > not want an OSM search engine to pick up names which are known to be > quite wrong.
Not that the OS version of 'Arthur's Terrace' misses the 'R' as well as the apostrophe! ie 'Athurs Terrace'. I would expect a search to ignore apostrophe's but not 'R's! incorrect_name is also fine (but we don't use it at present); if that one is the recommended practice for the community then we will use it. Possibly neither have been used extensively yet and we should talk about what we want. Personally I like the use of ':' because it is the way other tags create a formal hierarchy, for example source:name; 'Not' also has the advantage of being shorter. Regards, Peter > > -- > Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
