On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 08:11, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are an increasing number of places/features in NSW that are > getting dual (aboriginal) naming. > > For example: > - Booraghee / Bradleys Head > - Cooyoyo / The Castle > - Fort Denison / Muddawahnyuh > > From the point of view of the Geographic Names Board, there doesn't > appear to be any primacy given to one name or the other. > > Is there a view as to how to record these in OSM? > At a minimum they should have: name:en=Bradleys Head (name in English) name:aus=Booraghee (name in Australian Aboriginal Language (non-specific) This allows data consumers to choose what they display to users and how. > The specific aboriginal language is not necessarily known. > You can/should use the Australian Aboriginal Language (non-specific) language code "aus", ie. name:aus=* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name:aus > There are obviously tags like 'alt_name' that can be used to store a > second name, but not sure if that's most appropriate in cases like this.
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