Andy Allan wrote: > 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
that cover all cases. As an example the city Chemnitz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemnitz) The german name was/is 1143-1953 Chemnitz name_old ? 1953–1990 Karl-Marx-Stadt name_old ? 1990 Chemnitz name and Sorbian Kamjenica name:wen Czech Saská Kamenice name:cze Frank ___________________________________________________________ Der fr�he Vogel f�ngt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
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