On Feb 6, 2008 1:39 PM, wiseLYNX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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..
If you look at the bottom end of Map Features on the wiki you can see a variety of tags for names which might be useful. In particular old_name and loc_name may be what you want. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features#Name Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
