<div dir="ltr">Another solution is to always put category name into "name" field. "Paris" would become "City of Paris" or "Paris city".<div>And the renderers will need to decide how to cut the category word from some names in order not to display then on the map or another ready-to-use tag will need to be inroduce which would contain just "Paris" in it.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">чт, 6 дек. 2018 г. в 13:52, Simon Poole <<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch">simon@poole.ch</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Just to inject a bit of OT here<br>
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- the EN name of the Vierwaldstättersee is Lake Lucerne<br>
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- the literal translation is "lake of the four forest settlements" (only<br>
loosely related to the notion of cantons)<br>
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In both cases naming the lake "Lucerne" or "Vierwaldstätten" would<br>
obviously be nonsense.<br>
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Simon<br>
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Am 05.12.2018 um 19:55 schrieb marc marc:<br>
> Le 05. 12. 18 à 19:36, Eugene Podshivalov a écrit :<br>
>> The name tag is abused very often and systematically. <br>
>> <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/48.86138/2.36028" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/48.86138/2.36028</a><br>
> just because a hotel's name contains the word hotel does not necessarily <br>
> mean it is a false name. Some names are "hotêl abc" and not "abc"<br>
><br>
> the same for the lakes.<br>
> the lake near Geneva (France/Switzerland) is indeed called "Léman"<br>
> and it is a tautology (an error) to say Lake Léman.<br>
> But the "lake of the 4 cantons" in Switzerland is called the "lake of <br>
> the 4 cantons". If you ask someone where "of the 4 cantons" are located, <br>
> he don't understand what you're talking about because that not its name.<br>
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