[Tagging] name of river/admin area

[Jaakko Helleranta.com]

I think this is clearly one of those cases where it's impossible to set a
global simple rule...
... except that:
* use the name, which is used as the name. (here e.g. Thames vs.
Hudson/Potomac/what-not River)
* Add official name where the commonly used name differs from name (perhaps
e.g. Alexandria, VA vs. City of Alexandria, VA -- where I lived 4 years)
* add other loc_*, old_*, national_*, what-not_* names as needed / used...

Clear? Obviously not but not that obscure either...

Cheers,
-Jaakko

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On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> I can't find any guidance or consistency in the data, so I thought I'd let
> up a balloon here...
>
> Should the name=* for a river include the word "River"? Is it
> "name=Thames" or "name=River Thames"?
>
> According to the wiki [1] we should only use "Thames" in this case. If we
> consider "River Thames" to be the "full name" we can put that in full_name
> or official_name.
>
> The word "River" doesn't always precede the name: there are many examples
> of XXX River (e.g. Hudson River in NYC). Because of this I think we should
> put the "full name" somewhere.
>
> An analgous situation occurs with administrative units such as cities,
> boroughs etc. Should the NYC boundary be tagged with "name=New York" or
> "name=New York City" or "name=City of New York"? In the UK, is it
> "name=Maidstone" or "name=Maidstone Borough Council" or "name=Borough of
> Maidstone"?
>
> Colin
>
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_**only<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only>
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