On 23 Oct 2008, at 22:17, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Bob Jonkman wrote: >> In my locality there is a gas station (petrol station) which has >> the name >> "Elmira Service Centre", is it owned and operated by Norm >> Stanaitis, and >> it has a prominent banner for "UPI" brand gasoline, recently >> switched from >> "Pioneer" brand gasoline. The locals all refer to this station as >> "Stanaitis's". >> >> So, in this case there would be room for all three attributes: >> >> name=Elmira Service Centre >> operator=Norm Stanaitis >> brand=UPI > > A case could be made for adding "loc_name=Stanaitis's"; if you say > that's the name used locally, then a proper map for the local area > should perhaps refer to it by this name instead of the official name. > That's what "loc_name" is for.
Why do people keep using loc_name instead of the full local_name? Shaun _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
