Hi In DC, we just say DC usually. Across the states, it's Washington DC to distinguish from Washington state.
I'm not sure what the "name" tag should be, but I am wondering what the point of the translations are which simply duplicate the default name. Is it like a marker to say "don't try calling this place anything else"? Is that common, seems unneccesary? Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Friday, December 4, 2020, 06:04:49 AM EST, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: Hi, when reverting an edit this morning I noticed that the node for Washington (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/158368533) has myriad name:xx tags, many of which seem to be some variant of "Washington D.C." (with or without commas or dots), whereas the "local" name seems to be just Washington, without the D.C. As a native speaker of German I can assure you that we don't call the US capital "Washington D.C." as the name:de tag claims; I would assume that it is similar for most other languages. The German-language OSM map at https://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html?zoom=10&lat=38.70174&lon=-76.93764 has a mechanism where it displays the German name and then, if the local name is different, the local name below; since the German name "Washington D.C." and the local name "Washington" are different, this leads to a somewhat funny display (whereas the logic works ok for other US cities). I could of course fix the German name but I think that it might need a more thorough review and I don't feel competent for that. Two name tags (and this is checking only those that use Roman letters) look like they might be entirely wrong and refer to the District of Columbia only: name:lfn=Distrito de Columbia name:mi=Takiwā o Columbia Then again, I've heard people say "I was in D.C." and mean the city, so perhaps that *is* a legitimate name for the city? Maybe someone in the US community wants to have a look and do this right. It is a bit of a conundrum in OSM - we usually say that local knowledge tops everything, but then again for many of the languages there might not even *be* a local Washington mapper in OSM ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
