Please don't remove the alt_name tags. They are useful and not that much of a distraction or an error For example, a new freeway was just renamed for a congress person that helped with many AZ transportation projects. I added the alt_name tag so that the South Mountain Freeway can still be found in a search. The new name is months old while the old alt_name has been used for decade. Not everyone calls Pima County by its full name. That's why I think that the mapper added the alt_name so that searches would be successful.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/78850121 On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 6:26 PM Tod Fitch <[email protected]> wrote: > I’ve noticed that a number of counties in California and Arizona have what > seems to be unneeded alt_name tags in their boundary relations. For example > Pima County, Arizona has name=“Pima County” and alt_name=“Pima”. Same for > Pinal County in Arizona and Riverside, Orange, Kern and Ventura counties in > California. But this does not seem universal as the few counties I looked > at in Washington state have only a name=* tag (e.g. name=“Columbia County”). > > I don’t see a wiki page for the standard for this in the United States. Is > there one I’ve missed? > > Assuming there is not standard for this, should there be? And what should > it be? (My preference is to remove an alt_name that is simply the name > without “County”.) > > For what it is worth, it looks like the alt_names for counties in Arizona > and California were added in 2014 by the user “revent” who is still > actively mapping borders around the world. > > Thanks! > Tod > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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