On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 4:04 AM, Dave Swarthout <[email protected]> wrote: > However, I don't think you should use the name_1 tag. There has been endless > discussion on this list about the uses of tags having numerical suffixes > either with underscores or colons, and I believe that notation is out of > favor now. Names like this one might better be tagged either as > old_name=Lake Calhoun, or alt_name=Lake Calhoun. Using alt_name has, IIRC, > the additional advantage of being searchable with Nominatum.
+1, for not using name_1. Note that both alt_name and old_name are recognized by Nominatim, see [1] [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Development_overview m. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
