<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">Simone Saviolo <simone.saviolo@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
2013/1/6 Werner Hoch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:werner.ho@gmx.de" target="_blank">werner.ho@gmx.de</a>></span><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
> I am wondering what current best practice is.<br />
> Should name be applied to both component ways and relation,<br />
> or is application of name to relation sufficient.<br />
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For waterways, adding one name to ways and all names to the relation is<br />
at least "useful". Longer waterways (rivers) sometimes do not have the<br />
same name over the complete length, because they flow across different<br />
countries.<br />
<br />
e.g. The Danube river:<br />
<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/89652" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/89652</a><br />
</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>The Danube river doesn't change name: it only gets translated to the local language. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Ciao,</div><div><br /></div><div>Simone</div>
<p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: monospace; margin-top: 0px"><hr /><br />Tagging mailing list<br />Tagging@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br clear="all">Some river name differences aren't a matter of translation. The river that divides the US state of Texas from Mexico is known as the Rio Grande (Spanish for "Big River") in the United States, and as Rio Bravo or Rio Bravo del Norte (Spanish for "Wild River of the North") in Mexico.<br>
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