Hi everybody, I'm new to th OSM project, but I'm getting quite involved, as Torino (Italy), where I live, is well covered with Yahoo aerials, and it's quite effortless to fill in the neighborhoods of my home (which of course I know very well, and I don't need to go around GPSing).
I have a question: I'm planning, as soon I'll be able, to insert maps for a little town in the countryside, but I already know I'll have a little issue. The place has streets and places called with "new" names, given (I suppose) during the last century, but there are also (and mainly) known with their older names. As an example, the streen were now called Via Garibaldi, was called "Contrà ad mès" (middleway street, in the local dialect). The local administration is trying to recover these old names, and on plaques with street names are now showing both the new and the old ones. This issue anyway applies also in a number of other cases, where a place is nown with an official but less used name, and an unofficial better known one. Is there a way to add this kind of information in OSM? I believe simply putting the "other" name in parenthesis isn't the best solution.. thanks, Enrico _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
