Hi Emilie/Elena I see your point of view.
Thanks Dave F. ________________________________ From: Elena of Valhalla <elena.valha...@gmail.com> To: d f <fac63te...@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, 18 September, 2009 14:51:54 Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ? On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:20 PM, d f <fac63te...@yahoo.com> wrote: > My home town station has the same name as at least two other establishments > in the city. The label for each of those needs to be explicit. > Imagine the problem for a tourist trying to find the hotel with the same > name but turns up at the station! that's what icons (on a printed / rendered map) or "category" (in a search tool) or tag (in the data) are for; otherwise we could just put everything in the name tag and forget about any other tag. -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' homepage: http://www.trueelena.org email: elena.valha...@gmail.com
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