This all sounds very good in general. I'm especially happy to hear/see that officials of an official/national geo-information entity are directly involved in an import.
Also, the inclusion of various different versions of names sounds great to me. Three years in Haiti -- where numerous (often non-official but strongly existing) versions of names have made this multi-name possibility a top "pitch point" of OSM for me. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Thomas Hirsch <[email protected]>wrote: > > in OSM we usually also try to capture alternative spellings > (alt_name, loc_name etc) and values in different languages and dialects > (with name:lang-code-tags)**** > > ** ** > > The proposal includes a plan for alt_name tags. Unfortunately, only one of > those is supported, while several may be listed just in the data set.**** > > We are very open for constructive suggestions, what I presented is just > the (my) summary of the ongoing discussion. > I haven't digged into this very much but I've noticed in practice that alt_name:*=* namespace is also supported in standard Nominatim search Example: Searching Nominatim with Okap, Haiti returns: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=1071449 where Okap is at alt_name:ht=. I haven't tried this with different alt_name languages -- and I don't think this is a documented tag. But it's great that it works as this practical case shows that there's a need for it. I wish you patience in ironing out the details and implementing the import. Cheers, -Jaakko http://osm.org/user/jaakkoh -- [email protected] * Skype: jhelleranta * Mobile: +509-37-269154 * http://go.hel.cc/about.me
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