2012/9/4 Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl
On 04/09/2012 15:30, Phil! Gold wrote:
I fully agree that there's no way to set a global standard; it should be
left to the locals, who know the features best.
But how local is local? It's obvious that a single standard for the
whole world is not
On 2012-09-05 17:17, Simone Saviolo wrote :
[...] To complicate things even further, there are some rivers
(fiume in Italian, which is masculine) that are commonly referred to
as feminine: la Marcova, la Bormida, la Dora Riparia, la Dora Baltea,
la Drava, la Senna; and it's still debated
In Germany, this question is easier to answer.
There actually are streams and creeks that have the word stream or
creak in the name, just that Germans pull the words together, making
it more obvious that its part of the actual name.
Also it is almost exclusively used for smaller water features,
Am 04.09.2012 08:23, schrieb Ronnie Soak:
In Germany, this question is easier to answer.
[...]
This again is more often true for smaller towns. But we have some
exceptions:
'Lutherstadt Wittenberg' (City of Luther, Wittenberg) is actually the
full, official name of that city. How do we know?
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Ronnie Soak
chaoschaos0...@googlemail.com wrote:
In Germany, this question is easier to answer.
What is clear is that we cannot define a global naming convention for
these things. And please do not export your local practices in other
countries. Perhaps it would
2012/9/4 Pieren pier...@gmail.com:
What is clear is that we cannot define a global naming convention for
these things. And please do not export your local practices in other
countries.
+1
cheers,
Martin
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Naming things as they are said makes it difficult for machines to give you
a human readable name. In Osmand, if you touch a POI, for example a hotel,
it says Hotel xxx. So if someone named it Hotel Park, it will say Hotel
Hotel Park.
Likewise, if we have a different word for hotel, like inn,
2012/9/4 Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com:
Naming things as they are said makes it difficult for machines to give you a
human readable name. In Osmand, if you touch a POI, for example a hotel, it
says Hotel xxx. So if someone named it Hotel Park, it will say Hotel
Hotel Park.
Maybe better fix
* David ``Smith'' vidthe...@gmail.com [2012-09-03 18:51 -0400]:
In my part of the US, nearly every river is of the form the X River and I
would expect to see it that way on maps, leaving out the the which is
used in forming sentences but not generally considered part of the name.
In Michigan
On 04/09/2012 15:30, Phil! Gold wrote:
I fully agree that there's no way to set a global standard; it should be
left to the locals, who know the features best.
But how local is local? It's obvious that a single standard for the
whole world is not going to happen, but there has to be some level
Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote:
Naming things as they are said makes it difficult for machines to give
you
a human readable name. In Osmand, if you touch a POI, for example a
hotel,
it says Hotel xxx. So if someone named it Hotel Park, it will say
Hotel
Hotel Park.
Likewise, if we
I can't find any guidance or consistency in the data, so I thought I'd
let up a balloon here...
Should the name=* for a river include the word River? Is it
name=Thames or name=River Thames?
According to the wiki [1] we should only use Thames in this case. If
we consider River Thames to be
Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
I can't find any guidance or consistency in the data, so I thought I'd
let up a balloon here...
Should the name=* for a river include the word River? Is it
name=Thames or name=River Thames?
According to the wiki [1] we should only use Thames in
In my part of the US, nearly every river is of the form the X River and I
would expect to see it that way on maps, leaving out the the which is
used in forming sentences but not generally considered part of the name.
In Michigan there's the River Raisin for some reason, and I would expect to
see
Oh yes I forgot to mention: NYC would be name=New York, and maybe
tourist_name=New York City. If we have a tag for the full name of the city
government, such as City Of New York or Village Of West Jefferson, then so
be it, but that doesn't go in name=*.
I just _had_ to check what that is/was...
The NYC node (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/61785451) was along
those lines: alt-name=New York City - fixed to alt_name=* .. but also
added official_name=New York City -- and just now short_name=NYC
The city website (http://nyc.gov) seems to
On 2012-09-03 21:05, Colin Smale wrote :
Should
the name=* for a river include the word "River"? Is it
"name=Thames" or "name=River Thames"?
According to the wiki [1] we should only use "Thames" in this
case. If we consider "River Thames" to
On Sep 3, 2012 8:57 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com jaa...@helleranta.com
wrote:
My 10 years of ESL in English speaking environment would tend to think that
you could do this for almost any X City - voters of the City of X. ..
Not true in general. I think the main reason New York gets City appended
so
Hi,
Am 04.09.2012 03:22 schrieb André Pirard a_pir...@hotmail.com:
I think that names should be spelled the way people speak them so that
the map reader can speak them too.
le Wachiboux (masculine) but la Semois and la Meuse (feminine).
Well, this might depend on the local language. In German
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