... Because in England locks almost always have unique (and often fascinating and historic) names that are nothing to do with the canal name.
Mike Harris > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 28 August 2009 13:07 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] waterway=lock > > > On 27/08/09 12:13, Jack Stringer wrote: > > > >> lock=yes > >> lock_name=Withrington Bottom Lock > > > > When you are tagging a way, you can't use name= because that will > > already contain the name of the canal. Hence lock_name=. > > > Why would you want to repeat the name of a canal on its > individual nodes? > Isnt that repeating the mistake of the TIGER node tags? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
