I would use rather short_name.
But I see no valid reason for removing then.
Have you alerted this active user that you
started conversation about his/her mapping?
26 Dec 2019, 02:25 by [email protected]:
> 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
>
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