Enrico, Welcome! I've ancestors from not far north of Torino so I glad to see mapping activity there.
These tags may be what you need: old_name - Old name loc_name - Local name http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features - see Name section I don't they are yet rendered out on the www.openstreetmap.org views, but at least the information will be captured for feature use. Also, purely speculatively, I wonder if the dialect is supported as an ISO 3-letter code? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-3_codes We've been using 2-letter codes, so the following might be possible: name:it=Via Garibaldi name:xyz=Contrà ad mès Mike Stockholm At 02:39 PM 2/6/2008, wiseLYNX 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.. > >thanks, > >Enrico _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
