2011/7/28 Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl>: > It sounds like there are three types of street name: > 1) Official, as decided by the Powers That Be > 2) Signed, as displayed on the signs > 3) Colloquial, as people habitually use > > So which one do we put in "name=*", and what do we do with the others?
1) should generally be "name" if there is not good reason not to do this (i.e. nobody uses this official name, then you put it in "official_name" and use "name" for the one that's used) 2) some people use "visible_name" for this, of course you'd omit it if identical to "name" 3) there is various tags in use for this, e.g. "loc_name", "alt_name", "reg_name", "nat_name" see also http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name cheers, Martin PS: I suggest to continue on [tagging] _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
