On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:08 AM, andrzej zaborowskibalrogg@gmail.com wrote:
The instructions at the top of the pages could also mention the official_name:* tags - I don't know if these are approved in any way but I found they were on some of the nodes and I thought it was a good idea to propagate these too where the full name differs from the normal name the country is known by (which could otherwise be placed in loc_name, but it should probably be the one displayed by default)
What is this mess about official_name, name and loc_name ?
Is someone shifting what was earlier name/loc_name to something new like official_name/name ? Where is it discussed/described on this ML or the wiki ?
Pieren
Pieren schrieb:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:08 AM, andrzej zaborowskibalrogg@gmail.com wrote:
The instructions at the top of the pages could also mention the official_name:* tags - I don't know if these are approved in any way but I found they were on some of the nodes and I thought it was a good idea to propagate these too where the full name differs from the normal name the country is known by (which could otherwise be placed in loc_name, but it should probably be the one displayed by default)
What is this mess about official_name, name and loc_name ?
Is someone shifting what was earlier name/loc_name to something new like official_name/name ? Where is it discussed/described on this ML or the wiki ?
Pieren
I don't know anything about official_name or loc_name. The origin of this tool was the local-aware rendering at http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/, which is based only on the name:*-tags and (if not present) on the name-tag.
Peter
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:56:03 +0200, Pieren pieren3@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:08 AM, andrzej zaborowskibalrogg@gmail.com wrote:
The instructions at the top of the pages could also mention the official_name:* tags - I don't know if these are approved in any way but I found they were on some of the nodes and I thought it was a good idea to propagate these too where the full name differs from the normal name the country is known by (which could otherwise be placed in loc_name, but it should probably be the one displayed by default)
What is this mess about official_name, name and loc_name ?
Is someone shifting what was earlier name/loc_name to something new like official_name/name ? Where is it discussed/described on this ML or the wiki ?
Pieren
talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
official_name could be added without changing the meaning of name. For example, official_name="Kongeriket Norge", name="Norge", name:nb="Norge", name:nn="Noreg", name:en="Norway". "Kongeriket Norge" is the official name of Norway, though it is commonly known only as "Norge" and "Noreg" depending on which form of the Norwegian language you speak. Some cities also have the same. One could also add nick_name to the list, for example the city name="Fredrikstad" have nick_name="Plankebyen". In my opinion name should be what you expect printed on a map sold in that country. All other *name* tags and name:* tags should be available for multilingual searches and common aliases. If I search for "Kongeriket Norge" I expect to find Norway, but would I find Fredrikstad by searching for "Plankebyen"?