[Tagging] 'name' variation tags standardisation

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de> wrote:

> yarl at o2.pl:
> > Now there is a good trend to use colon in key names. Maybe we should
> > move these tags below?
> >
> > int_name -> name:international
> > [...]
> > alt_name -> name:alt or name:alternative
> > official_name -> name:official
> >
> > But then we can have structures like that: name:official:de/ru/etc.
>
> I don't think that we should do that. With alt_name:de, it's clear that
> the placement of "alt" and "de" is significant. With name:alt:de, it
> could reasonably be expected that the suffixes are commutative: Are
> name:de:alt and name:alt:de equivalent?
>

name:alt:de is the German translation of the alternate name
name:de:alt is an alternate German name
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