Paul Norman <penorman <at> mac.com> writes: > I believe with TIGER these were not alternate names, but different > names, none of which were clearly main or alternates in the data. It's > one of those things that makes raw TIGER data a pain to work with. > > That situation is distinct from when you have a primary name and > multiple alternate names, although in practice many of the TIGER cases > had a primary name, or one of the alternate names wasn't really a name.
Alternative names in OSM come in two types: names to display (with tags such as name:fr) and names to search for. Although a semicolon-separated list is more logical in some ways than artificially separating into multiple tags, it is makes a difference from searching alternative display names. > TIGER is also not where to look to for good tagging practices. For > various reasons, there were numerous problems with the tagging. It was a learning experience. The red tape at the beginning of this discussion is one of the legacies. -- Andrew _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
