On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 7:04 PM, 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. Dave, Thanks for the correction. I can never remember which is in current favor - so I went with the one with most uses on taginfo. Alt name definitely makes more sense. -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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