Andrew,
It is not in general a problem of translation in various languages,
For many countries, no official list of localities is available. You have
either transliteration problems or asking the name of a locality to their
inhabitant, you may come with variants. While only the name is published,
adding these variants as alt_names faciliate the search through Nominatim.
Pierre
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De : Andrew Hain <andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk>
À : talk@openstreetmap.org
Envoyé le : Jeudi 11 septembre 2014 8h24
Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags
Andrew Buck <andrew.r.buck <at> gmail.com> writes:
> However, since the conversion scripts have changed over time and since
> some work was done manually by others, we ended up using two slightly
> different forms for the alt_name field in the case where there are
> more than one alt_name for a given place. Some use the form
> alt_name_2 and some use alt_name:2 (with the 2 extending to higher
> numbers as well, some of these places have as many as 6 or 7 alt_name
> entries).
Are some of these names actually names in different languages that should
be tagged name:wo and so on?
--
Andrew
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