Re: [Tagging] Building names, historical/original owner?

generally, setting a „name“ seems obvious, additionally you could add some historic=* tag. For the heritage status there is documentation of the schemes here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:heritage Cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] Building names, historical/original owner?

> I have a question about `name=` and variants of names. I've been reading a lot of local history and in the architecture/history world, houses are generally named for the first resident that they were built for. E.g."Johnson house" and are referred to in this way even after many generations of

Re: [Tagging] Building names, historical/original owner?

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:46 AM Jmapb wrote: > IMO it's fine to use old_name=* even without name=* -- to record the fact > that it used to be known as the Johnson House, but there's no current name > in common use. J > Thanks all for the feedback. I guess I'll use old_name=* for these. The

Re: [Tagging] Building names, historical/original owner?

I'd put it in OHM rather than OSM. OHM could develop tools that would allow scrolling through dates to 'see' things as they were. On 15/12/18 02:34, Adam Franco wrote: I have a question about `name=` and variants of names. I've been reading a lot of local history and in the

Re: [Tagging] Building names, historical/original owner?

That’s good, too. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 14, 2018, at 11:44 AM, Jmapb wrote: > >> On 12/14/2018 11:20 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:36 PM Adam Franco wrote: >>> What are folks thoughts about these historical-owner building names when >>> they aren't

Re: [Tagging] Building names, historical/original owner?

> I have a question about `name=` and variants of names. I've been reading a > lot of local history and in the architecture/history world, houses are > generally named for the first resident that they were built for. E.g. > "Johnson house" and are referred to in this way even after many

Re: [Tagging] Building names, historical/original owner?

On 12/14/2018 11:20 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:36 PM Adam Franco > wrote: What are folks thoughts about these historical-owner building names when they aren't well-known? Should they go in a `description=

Re: [Tagging] Building names, historical/original owner?

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:36 PM Adam Franco wrote: > What are folks thoughts about these historical-owner building names when > they aren't well-known? Should they go in a `description= > ` tag, `alt_name= >