Re: [Tagging] Automated edit of company name change

2012-09-03 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com You might want to move the old name to, well, old_name=* .. because many may well search for that even years after the name change. And if the tag old_name is already present with a previous store name ? Pieren

Re: [Tagging] Automated edit of company name change

2012-09-03 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:32:32 Pieren wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com You might want to move the old name to, well, old_name=* .. because many may well search for that even years after the name change. And if the tag old_name is already present with a previous

Re: [Tagging] Automated edit of company name change

2012-09-03 Thread Johan Jönsson
Andrew Errington erringtona@... writes: Thanks everyone for the tips. I'm sure it's all stores: http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx? aid=2954734cloc=joongangdaily|home|newslist2 On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Andrew Errington erringtona@... wrote:

Re: [Tagging] Automated edit of company name change

2012-09-03 Thread Jaakko Helleranta.com
There's also the operator=* tag even though I think that's not The One suitable for this case. -Jaakko Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel -- Mobile: +509-37-26 91 54, Skype/GoogleTalk: jhelleranta -Original Message- From: Johan Jönsson joha...@goteborg.cc Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012

Re: [Tagging] Automated edit of company name change

2012-09-03 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:06:21 Johan Jönsson wrote: Andrew Errington erringtona@... writes: Thanks everyone for the tips. I'm sure it's all stores: http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx? aid=2954734cloc=joongangdaily|home|newslist2 On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at

Re: [Tagging] Automated edit of company name change

2012-09-03 Thread Jaakko Helleranta.com
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com You might want to move the old name to, well, old_name=* .. And if the tag old_name is already present with a previous store name ? Then you merely change the old_name=*

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2012-09-03 Thread Federico Explorador (Nevados.org)
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Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - man_made=kiln

2012-09-03 Thread Richard Smith
Hi Martin / All I have thought more on the subject and have concluded that your proposal of using an output like tag such as product=* is a better way to represent the output of the kiln for the following reasons: 1. kiln= May lead to ambiguous situation in which users fail to differentiate

[Tagging] name of river/admin area

2012-09-03 Thread Colin Smale
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

Re: [Tagging] name of river/admin area

2012-09-03 Thread John F. Eldredge
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

Re: [Tagging] name of river/admin area

2012-09-03 Thread David ``Smith''
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

Re: [Tagging] name of river/admin area

2012-09-03 Thread David ``Smith''
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=*.

Re: [Tagging] name of river/admin area

2012-09-03 Thread Jaakko Helleranta.com
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

Re: [Tagging] name of river/admin area

2012-09-03 Thread André Pirard
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

Re: [Tagging] name of river/admin area

2012-09-03 Thread David ``Smith''
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

Re: [Tagging] name of river/admin area

2012-09-03 Thread Michael Krämer
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