I've used old_name=* in places that might also be good to be a warning suppressor. Sometimes visible signs remain but may fade away, sometimes it's been a place I've resurveyed for OSM (changes from marketing during new development and road sign installation). There was one case where the end of the road had a big name(some mews) carved into the house but the sign at the entrance was different (some close), when I got home I noticed my photo of the sign actually said in small print "formerly some mews".
I don't see too much problem with the not:name tag, it's what would be stored under the 'note' tag but gives it a maachine-readable format. But what if a 3rd source says something different. Should we record that too, and how? not:name=Something,Somewhat,SomePlace,... On 1 June 2010 22:46, Roy Jamison <xtee...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Totally agree. Flooding OSM with not: tags is both pointless and > counter-productive. Why not implement a search engine type feature like > google suggest that spell checks and autocorrects. If the differences > between OS Locater and OSM are only minor, i.e. apostrophes, spaces in > names, etc then these could probably just be ignored instead of having > millions of not:* tags for all the possible permutations that *could* be > entered incorrectly by an end user. > > > > It just feels that the not:* tag is adding data to OSM to placate a lint > > tool, rather than adding geographic data to the database. Surely the way > > to do it is to add to your OS Locator data to stop your lint tool > > reporting the error, rather than adding the not:* tag to OSM? > > > > Still an interesting tool. > > > > > > Cheers, Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- Gregory o...@livingwithdragons.com http://www.livingwithdragons.com
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