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10. May 2018 12:59 by <a href="mailto:pla16021@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pla16021@gmail.com</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Colin Smale <<a href="mailto:colin.smale@xs4all.nl" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">colin.smale@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex ; border-left: 1px #ccc solid ; padding-left: 1ex"><div style="font-size: 10pt ; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif"><div class="m_-6597695877095368146pre" style="margin: 0 ; padding: 0 ; font-family: monospace"> </div>
<div class="m_-6597695877095368146pre" style="margin: 0 ; padding: 0 ; font-family: monospace">A "name" is what something is "called" by "others." Which "others" are considered, is the real debate here. Is it the council? Is it the residents within 100m? Is it a tourist who doesn't speak the local language? Who gets priority? This is something that cartographers (AKA humans determining the rendering) must decide, depending on who the map is for.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><br /></div></blockquote><div>I would suggest that the name is what it says on the sign. Because if you have a hardcopy map, or there's no<br /></div><div>GPS signal on your phone, the sign is what you're looking for. If the locals call it something other than what is<br /></div><div>on the sign, that is what loc_name is for (in some circumstances alt_name or old_name might be more<br /></div><div>appropriate). If a mapper puts something else in the name field than what it says on the sign, I get an urge<br /></div><div>to meet that mapper and shake him/her warmly by the neck because that information is of no use to me.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Note that name used and tagged is frequently part of what sign displays.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example: Starbucks vs Starbucks Coffee</p><p><br /></p> </body>
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