-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
I think using alt_name:1 was not the greatest idea at the time. So you have a > hand-picked team of people using private task manager jobs so that > the work is done carefully and no one just "blindly" dumps a load > of data in without first checking it. but you can't be bothered to discuss with the wider OSM community how to best address the multiple alternative name issue; instead you pick something that works by accident. Then you plan to "make it right" by using the unprecedented and illogical scheme of "alt_name_x", and before you discuss the issue with people who might help you devise a better way, you ask the Nominatim maintainer to add a quick patch for you. alt_name_x sounds like a bad idea to me as well - why is there an alt_name_x but no old_name_x or official_name_x for when something has two old names or two official names? The patch that has been suggested for osm2pgsql https://github.com/openstreetmap/osm2pgsql/commit/29ccee0859fa4728378d7299e9deeab737da347d simply accepts alt_name_whateversomething but doesn't afford the same to other name tags. Is this matter really so urgent that we have no time to think it through? > (with the 2 extending to higher numbers as well, some of these > places have as many as 6 or 7 alt_name entries). Do the people who carefully add the data have the knowledge to assert whether keeping these 6 or 7 names really adds value, or are they instructed to simply copy whatever GNIS has? > Thank you for your consideration in this matter, and I would ask > that we try to expedite the discussion on this Missing - or expedited - discussion has got you into this situation. You're now trying to introduce a badly thought out schema on the quick; a change to our instance of Nominatim would make things worse by actually encouraging people to use this. I am very unhappy with the whole process and I can only hope it's the exception not the rule. Bye Frederik - -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUDglTAAoJEOx/uhGAJu9HMucH/0nuVzNo+rdjf0yK0ztDoGJO AEz8YOBMlwQ1I3sqStpeT9agKBklvoeEBmnzPAJXveroPxHBF5WsXR+NLguORNnu HbDaskHNQklGT0H4thpehckef1UW0xowWVRKSciVN2zJRTJ7wv675rPuP2wTVG7q 2rkzU14xNC5WxjgYz46WVa5fEUSP5MrbPU5P66O6v0HqQBLdwW8jwMQqxpr4q3oU F8PMCYgRwbq+d7QClA7PJBrqifKkRwFDEroC8BXFnUriYw8jQh916mfLtCFepsJJ KHgXvL+q+z6xRk/jXJRWU9stc5+/tSEHR8IKCteiMDBQDGVDkyA9iWZ3D3ar4qI= =aVog -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
