<div dir="ltr">Please don't remove the alt_name tags. They are useful and not that much of a distraction or an error For example, a new freeway was just renamed for a congress person that helped with many AZ transportation projects. I added the alt_name tag so that the South Mountain Freeway can still be found in a search. The new name is months old while the old alt_name has been used for decade. Not everyone calls Pima County by its full name. That's why I think that the mapper added the alt_name so that searches would be successful.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/78850121">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/78850121</a> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 6:26 PM Tod Fitch <<a href="mailto:tod@fitchfamily.org">tod@fitchfamily.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I’ve noticed that a number of counties in California and Arizona have what seems to be unneeded alt_name tags in their boundary relations. For example Pima County, Arizona has name=“Pima County” and alt_name=“Pima”. Same for Pinal County in Arizona and Riverside, Orange, Kern and Ventura counties in California. But this does not seem universal as the few counties I looked at in Washington state have only a name=* tag (e.g. name=“Columbia County”).<br>
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I don’t see a wiki page for the standard for this in the United States. Is there one I’ve missed?<br>
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Assuming there is not standard for this, should there be? And what should it be? (My preference is to remove an alt_name that is simply the name without “County”.)<br>
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For what it is worth, it looks like the alt_names for counties in Arizona and California were added in 2014 by the user “revent” who is still actively mapping borders around the world.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
Tod<br>
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