Tod Fitch <t...@fitchfamily.org> writes: > I’ve noticed that a number of counties in California and Arizona have > what seems to be unneeded alt_name tags in their boundary > relations. For example Pima County, Arizona has name=“Pima County” and > alt_name=“Pima”. Same for Pinal County in Arizona and Riverside, > Orange, Kern and Ventura counties in California. But this does not > seem universal as the few counties I looked at in Washington state > have only a name=* tag (e.g. name=“Columbia County”).
This seems bogus and feels like tagging for the search engine. I think the root of the problem is that from some point of view, the name of Foo County is Foo, just like the name of Town of Bar is Bar. > I don’t see a wiki page for the standard for this in the United States. Is > there one I’ve missed? > > Assuming there is not standard for this, should there be? And what should it > be? (My preference is to remove an alt_name that is simply the name without > “County”.) > > For what it is worth, it looks like the alt_names for counties in Arizona and > California were added in 2014 by the user “revent” who is still actively > mapping borders around the world. Definitely ask them about it, and if they aren't local, and the locals don't like it, fix it. (Is there a talk-us-califoria list?) _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
