Based on this discussion and my own checking to see what search engines are doing with the data, I think it would be okay to move the alt_name tag value to be a short_name value for the counties in California and Arizona where the current alt_name tag is the same string as the name but without a “ County” suffix. For example:
alt_name=“Los Angeles” name=“Los Angeles County” Changed to name=“Los Angeles County” short_name=“Los Angeles” From my side this is now just a desire to be logical and consistent (not always a trait seen in OSM tagging). My initial annoyance has been dealt with on my topo map rendering by creating a Postgresql function that, among other things, will ignore alt_name values if they fit the above criteria. As noted by Joseph Eisenberg, the alt_name/short_name value could probably be dropped in these cases but I suspect that will get more push back than changing the tag. — Tod > On Dec 27, 2019, at 7:21 PM, Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It's not necessary to add an alternative like "Josephine" if the name= > is already "Josephine County" because geocoding and search application > already know to search for part of a name. > > For example this search already finds the "Josephine County" > administrative boundary as the first result: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Josephine - and there is no > short alt_name or short_name. > > So I think there is no reason to have this information duplicated if > we are just worried about search. > > -Joseph Eisenberg > > On 12/27/19, stevea <[email protected]> wrote: >> I truly love the level of detail we get "coming out of the woodwork" so that >> we may have excellent real-life examples to share with one another (and +1 >> to one another, too!) >> >> To be brief about it (rare for me, I endeavor to get better): good >> examples, discussion / dialog and sharing our real-world experiences and >> knowledge is only going to help things. If somebody reading now has a >> more-concrete understanding of differences between old-, alt-, official-, >> and so on, hooray. If such sharper focus finds its way into a >> more-enlightened sentence or paragraph in a wiki, great. >> >> Chip, chip, chipping away at it (are all of us), >> SteveA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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