On 2 June 2010 12:08, Robin Paulson <[email protected]> wrote: > > this reminds me of a situation i've come across in auckland, which i > don't know the solution to. there's a major road, which apparently has > three names: > The Strand (on signposts) > Shipwright Lane (on different signposts) > another name which I can't remember off the top of my head, not on any > signs or maps i can find, but which some (older) locals refer to it as > > what to do? >
I would think about using name= and alt_name= for the The Strand and Shipwright Lane, and either loc_name or old_name for the third name. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name This would get them into the system for namefinder etc to use, but only one would be printed in most renderings. The hard part is which one would get the main name. Are you sure that both names apply to the whole street? There is a similar case I've seen, where a lane was parallel to the main street - when the street was widened, the intervening building(s) were removed. The buildings on one side of the street for one or two blocks were still on (Something) lane, the rest of the street and the other side of the road had the other address. Stephen _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
