[A short reply because of time issues] > From: Thomas Hirsch [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 11:45 PM > Subject: [Imports] Norwegian place name registry (SSR) > > We are in process of finalizing the import plan, and are at a point > where we would love to get some input. > > Summary: > - CC-BY 3.0 no, attribution "Kartverket", explicit permission also granted. > - Manual import using conflation tools. Id tags allow for automatic > tracking/updates afterwards. > - ca. 900.000 place names, all over Norway > - Names will be conflated with existing elements where possible, > overwriting existing names with the official and registered alternate > spellings
This is a huge issue. If the data in the government database and the on-the-ground data differs, we should be tagging the on-the-ground data in name and name:*, with the official name in official_name. > Tagging Plans: > name=[main accepted and recommended name in SSR] > alt_name=[second accepted and recommended name in SSR] > source:name=Sentralt stadnamnregister, Kartverket If the name is modified, the source:name tag will become outdated and will not generally be updated or deleted. Experience with other imports shows that most mappers won't modify tags like source:name. > no-kartverket-ssr:url=http://url-to-factsheet > no-kartverket-ssr:objid=12345 > no-kartverket-ssr:date=2012-06-08 These tags should not be necessary You mention a multitude of official languages and dialects, but you don't discuss the use of name:* tags. How are you planning to use them for multiple languages? Thanks, Paul _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
