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> On 27 Mar 2024, at 20:36, Dave F via Tagging
> wrote:
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> what determines the cut off point for a name being too "slangy"?
the “what” is harder to generalize, but the “who” is pretty clear: the local
mapper decides this
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Mar 27, 2024, 20:33 by tagging@openstreetmap.org:
> If it's not on a road sign or in a street gazetteer database then it's almost
> certain not to have a name.
>
maybe in some areas of world, but not everywhere
many names are not in either of that
The wiki says this:
"but only where this is deemed to be too much of a slang name or
otherwise unofficial-sounding. Ordinarily though, the name which local
people use is the name we set in the name=* tag!"
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Local_names_(loc_name)
This is, once again,
