[Tagging] Names on relations and not component ways

[Simone Saviolo]

2013/1/6 Werner Hoch <werner.ho at gmx.de>

> > I am wondering what current best practice is.
> > Should name be applied to both component ways and relation,
> > or is application of name to relation sufficient.
>
> For waterways, adding one name to ways and all names to the relation is
> at least "useful". Longer waterways (rivers) sometimes do not have the
> same name over the complete length, because they flow across different
> countries.
>
> e.g. The Danube river:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/89652
>

The Danube river doesn't change name: it only gets translated to the local
language.

Ciao,

Simone
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