<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>On Sat, 2019-05-11 at 19:09 +0100, Paul Allen wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 18:53, Mateusz Konieczny <<a href="mailto:matkoniecz@tutanota.com">matkoniecz@tutanota.com</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>The question is whatever it requires separate proposal to fix old proposal or is invoking<br><div>general rule "name tag is for name, description tag is for description" sufficient.<br></div></div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sometimes, and not just for bus routes, the name and the description are identical.</div><div><br></div><div>Not far from me is a house that is painted red. Its name is Ty Coch (in less sloppy</div><div>orthography it would be Tŷ Coch, but it's lost the accent over time). The name has long</div><div>been Ty Coch. It's Welsh for "Red House." There are a LOT of house names around here</div><div>that, if they weren't in Welsh, some mapper checking my work would think I'd entered the</div><div>description rather than the name. I recently mapped an events venue in a converted</div><div>farm building that calls itself "The Shed" because it's in a large shed. And mapped the</div><div>building used as a play area for a campsite as "The Barn" because that's what the operators</div><div>have named it, it just happens to be in what is a Dutch barn. There are a lot of buildings</div><div>that used to be mills which have names like "White Mill," "Red Mill," "Garnon's Mill," Etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Be careful not to insist that something cannot be the name of a thing because it also</div><div>happens to be a description of that thing. People are lazy and have limited imaginations:</div><div>sometimes the description is used as the name.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not necessarily lazy, but names come from before the time of mass literacy. </div><div><br></div><div>Back in time you would have said you live at Tŷ Coch and someone who could not read would find your house.</div><div><br></div><div>The same with pub name, they are often descriptions of the picture, hence we still have names such as The White Lion, The Dog and Pheasant or Y Llew Coch.</div><div><br></div><div>Phil (trigpoint)</div></body></html>