I think that alt_name is useful to add variants of the name for searching. Often there is an abbreviated and a full version of the same name, and one is not any more 'official' than the other. This is often the case with churches.
For streets that have been renamed, I would prefer a former_name or old_name tag, which should also be read by search engines. -- Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
