Colin Smale <[email protected]> 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 this case. If > > we consider "River Thames" to be the "full name" we can put that in > full_name or official_name. > > The word "River" doesn't always precede the name: there are many > examples of XXX River (e.g. Hudson River in NYC). Because of this I > think we should put the "full name" somewhere.
At least in American usage, the form X River is much more common than River X. Having the word City as part of a city name is also unusual, except in cases where it is needed to clarify what you are talking about, such as New York City vs. the state of New York. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
