[Tagging] Extremely long names for highways

[Dave Swarthout]

Peter,

>Should I move them directly to official name and leave name empty?

That's the question. Without local knowledge any guess you make is only
that, a guess. If you change it having your particular needs in mind, you
might be accused of bringing a bias into the decision. We English-speaking
mappers have a somewhat similar problem here in Thailand. There is a snall
community of Thai mappers adding POIs. They often make a node, name it
using Thai script, but don't say what it represents, shop, amenity, ?? And
how can we communicate with them? You will probably face that problem in
your dealings with those Russian(?) mappers if you try to ask them about
the popular name of those ways.

Good luck.

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> sent from a phone
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> > Am 27.09.2015 um 14:17 schrieb Peter <graphhopper at gmx.de>:
> >
> > So I'll add OSM notes to let others fix this or should I move them
> directly to official name and leave name empty?
>
>
> what would we gain from that? I also believe this value should better go
> into the official_name tag, but what is then the common name? How are
> people referring to this road (just by ref?)?
>
> cheers
> Martin
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Dave Swarthout
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