On 12/4/20 3:43 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
On 04.12.20 12:33, Mikel Maron wrote:
I'm not sure what the "name" tag should be, but I am wondering what the point of the
translations are which simply duplicate the default name. Is it like a marker to say "don't
try calling this place anything
Native en-US speaker here.
The city of Washington and the District of Columbia are coterminous.
Toponyms such as 'Georgetown', 'Anacostial', 'University Heights', refer to
neighbourhoods within the city.
It's quite common in the US to say, 'D.C.' when talking about the city -
perhaps even
Dec 4, 2020, 12:43 by frede...@remote.org:
> I have often argued for just dropping name:X if it is the name as name,
> because I would assume that every language-specific map or other use
> case would revert to the name tag if no language-specific name was present.
>
> The counter-argument was
name:pl tag is fortunately correct
Dec 4, 2020, 12:33 by mikel.ma...@gmail.com:
> Hi
>
> In DC, we just say DC usually. Across the states, it's Washington DC to
> distinguish from Washington state.
>
> I'm not sure what the "name" tag should be, but I am wondering what the point
> of the
Hi,
On 04.12.20 12:33, Mikel Maron wrote:
> I'm not sure what the "name" tag should be, but I am wondering what the point
> of the translations are which simply duplicate the default name. Is it like a
> marker to say "don't try calling this place anything else"? Is that common,
> seems
Hi
In DC, we just say DC usually. Across the states, it's Washington DC to
distinguish from Washington state.
I'm not sure what the "name" tag should be, but I am wondering what the point
of the translations are which simply duplicate the default name. Is it like a
marker to say "don't try
Hi,
when reverting an edit this morning I noticed that the node for
Washington (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/158368533) has myriad
name:xx tags, many of which seem to be some variant of "Washington D.C."
(with or without commas or dots), whereas the "local" name seems to be
just Washington,
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