On 01/05/2008 13:11, Dan Karran wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:44 AM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It's usually POIs affected, and it is usually just variations in names >> rather than completely different names (when you would probably want >> them rendered anyway). Occasionally though street names also have this >> problem. Consider one I came across recently: signs say "Long Horse >> Croft". You can imagine someone might search for "Longhorse Croft" >> (especially as that's how the district council list it on their refuse >> collection days list). > > What should happen in situations where different names are used in > different contexts? I can think of at least one example on the Isle of > Man where the B39 Corlea Road ([1], and in post office database) is > also known as the Ronague Road [2], the Solomons Corner to Ronague > Road [3], and on the road sign on the ground as the Road of the Grey > Hill (or in Manx Bayr Yn Chor Lheeah). > > Presumably the main name is the one on the ground (despite not being > referenced in any official documents available online), and each of > the others should be referred to in an alt_name tag?
I'd have thought it depends what you want to appear where. If you want it to appear in all the forms on the map, then I guess you'd put both in the name (like I did here maybe: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.17627&lon=-0.03335&zoom=17&layers=B0FT ), but if you only want one of them to appear but the others to be located by searching, you could use alt_name. "Bayr Yn Chor Lheeah" would go under name:gv presumably. David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
