On Thursday 13 August 2009 10:56:03 Pieren wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:08 AM, andrzej zaborowski<balr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The instructions at the top of the pages could also mention the > > official_name:* tags - I don't know if these are approved in any way > > but I found they were on some of the nodes and I thought it was a good > > idea to propagate these too where the full name differs from the > > normal name the country is known by (which could otherwise be placed > > in loc_name, but it should probably be the one displayed by default) > > What is this mess about official_name, name and loc_name ? > > Is someone shifting what was earlier name/loc_name to something new > like official_name/name ? > Where is it discussed/described on this ML or the wiki ? > > Pieren
This is just adapting to what people are actually putting in the tags. You don't see many countries tagged like name=la Republique francaise Nor will you find many printed maps with those full official names printed as country labels. -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
