[Imports] Importing names of homeowners : Nepal Red Cross

[Robert Banick]

Hi all,




I've worked with the NRCS on OSM in the past and know some of the more active mappers in Nepal. I'm following up with them to fix this.




The comments about mapping names to homes in Nepal are accurate but do fly in the face of standard OSM conventions. I'll inquire whether the the Nepali OSM community has an established convention regarding the use of names for addressing in this way.




Best,

Robert 



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On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org>
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>> Everyone such areas would know a farm by its owner's name and refer to it that way. 
>> A map for Nepal without that information is useless, just as a map without street names and house numbers would be useless in Europe.
>> If OSM wants to be a map that is useful in Nepal for local people you will need this information. 
> I don’t necessarily disagree with that, and I certainly don’t expect everyone to conform to one true way of addressing houses.
> But the demographic information seems, at best, prone to getting rapidly out of date.
> Certainly an e-mail to the creator inquiring about their intentions with those tags is appropriate.
> d.
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