2012/3/9 Jaakko Helleranta.com <[email protected]>: > Jaime wrote: "My guess is that, at least in my area, they are mixing OSM > geometries and names with -very poor- labels from other source." > > ... Which would mean that (mixing and matching data in an area) they should > be contributing back to OSM, eih?
It has been suggested on IRC that they used GeoNames, which does sometimes have very-strange-but-not-completely-wrong names. But GeoNames is already under a compatible license as far as I know. > Would that poor old local name of Madrid be old_alt_loc_name=[whatever] in > OSM terms?? I checked the edits history and it wasn't under any of those tags, but it would make sense to add it as loc_name, as people might sometimes use Madriles in their search queries and such. :) But it's not a name you'd want to display on a serious map. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
