[HOT] GNS name merging discussion thread

[Pierre Béland]

Blake,

The name tag is for the official name. We do our best to identify it. And field teams if possible revise them.

The alt_name are to help when searching names through OpenStreetMap Nominatim. 

For example, 

Balaja, Ballajah, Ballahah

We should not repeat the same name more then once in this list of name, alt-Names.

 
Pierre 



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 De : Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com>
À : hot at openstreetmap.org 
Envoyé le : Vendredi 15 août 2014 0h40
Objet : Re: [HOT] GNS name merging discussion thread
 

Hi,

Much like the discussion about what type of object to tag with place=, 
namely working out the conventions we are using, I have a question about 
alt_name v. alt_name_1,2,3,etc. tags

I have been adding via merging the tags as they are imported from the 
GNS file, so alt_name_1,2,3,etc  EVEN IF the existing node already has 1 
or more alternative names in an alt_name=alt;alt2;alt3;etc type tag.

This results in the same name being listed twice, but with different tag 
key values (alt_name v. alt_name_1,etc).

I certainly don't think it matters much to DB size over all or 
searching, but I am curious to know if I should keep doing that or stop 
it. Luckily it does not come up very much, maybe 5 - 10 times in the 
hundreds of nodes I have merged so far, but I figured I'd ask.


Regards,
Blake Girardot

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