----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Avis" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [Talk-GB]Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO -apostrophes
> > Peter Miller <peter.mil...@...> writes: > >>I suggest we continue to flag alternative versions for which there is >>no proven valid usage using not:name but where an alternative official >>name is found (ie in the legal name or a past name or even one in >>local usage) then we should put that in alt:name. > > I think alt_name is more common than alt:name. > > For trivial differences such as apostrophes or capitalization it doesn't > make any sense to add an alt_name, I feel. Anyone using the data - > whether > a computer program or a human - is quite able to ignore punctuation when > comparing strings, and so the additional tags don't add any value. But > they > can be added as not:name for the purposes of this data check. > >>1) There is a proposal to mark apostrophe differences in a single >>colour. > > I don't believe anyone suggested that; I thought of removing them > altogether > (in which case the single colour would be white!) but later accepted they > might > as well be cleaned up with the other stuff. Yes they did :) I suggested it yesterday. David > > -- > Ed Avis <[email protected]> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
