On Tuesday 21 October 2008, 20:56:58, Pieren did write: > > I would like to add the tag "alt_name" in the Map Features wiki page. > I discovered this tag in a mail from David Earl ([1]) sometime ago but > I don't think that many people are reading the ML archives. > I also don't think that a vote is required here because the tag seems > "obvious" for me. But I would like to hear your opinions about the tag > itself and if it can go directly in the Map Features page or not.
Yes. Name variants are essential. > > Here an excerpt of David Earl's email: > "I'd like to encourage you, when editing the map, to think about how > people might search for the features you are adding to the map and try > to accommodate them, to try to be helpful to future consumers of the > map data. Using alt_name is one way to do this." > … and "alt_name" should be repeatable. I'm sorry, I seem to be bringing this up at every opportunity. I can't promise I'll stop. I'm planning a wiki page so I can get it out of my system and so you can ignore me less actively. :~) Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
