On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Russ Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Manfred Podzkiewitz wrote: > >> Hello, i have a question about the handling of unoffical, or ethnic, >> or >> historic names of towns and villages. > The TIGER import in the USA uses name_1 for alternate names. Perhaps > we should view all tags starting with "name" as potential names? > That points to using "nameEN" for the English name of a city, and > "nameDE" for the German name of the same city, etc. > > Or should that be "name:EN" and "name:DE"?
Alternative names, local names, multilingual names and all that stuff is covered already at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Naming Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
