On 02/07/2015, Colm Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Legally, the name is "Iarnród Éireann—Irish Rail" > http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1986/en/act/pub/0031/sec0007.html#sec7 > > They use both names, but never the dual name. The day-to-day use tends to be > Irish Rail. > > At the start, Irish Rail was dominant. However, they had a problem with > people defacing their then "IR" logo to "IRA": > http://farm1.staticflickr.com/2/3797462_95ac494eb8.jpg > > So they changed to having Iarnród Éireann dominant with the "IE" logo. > http://c2.thejournal.ie/media/2013/02/irishrail-old-2.jpg > > However, in promoting websales, they found that few people could spell > www.iarnrodeireann.ie (possibly as few could pronounce it properly) so the > website is now www.irishrail.ie > > Comparing Google results "Irish Rail" (with quotes) has 390,000 results, > while "Iarnród Éireann" (with quotes) has 150,000.
Interesting :) Thanks for this background info. > Now, I'm not sure if we want to get into operator=Iarnród Éireann—Irish Rail > or operator:en=Irish Rail and operator:ga=Iarnród Éireann - it would lead > to too much confusion and would be maintenance intensive. > > On balance, I think Irish Rail is the better one to use. Clearly operator:ga and operator:en is overkill. "Iarnród Éireann—Irish Rail" is a bit of a mouthfull, but is the most correct value from what you are saying. For that matter, "AIB Group (UK) p.l.c." is as much of a mouthfull, it's the same "official name vs usual name" issue. I lean in favor of using the official name on operator=*, but "Irish Rail" could be ok as well. The most important thing is to use the same value everywhere. If other people think we should chaneg to "Iarnród Éireann—Irish Rail", I think it's ok to do it with an overpass+josm semi-automated edit. _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
