[Tagging] Can OSM become a geospacial database?

[Eugene Podshivalov]

Another solution is to always put category name into "name" field. "Paris"
would become "City of Paris" or "Paris city".
And the renderers will need to decide how to cut the category word from
some names in order not to display then on the map or another ready-to-use
tag will need to be inroduce which would contain just "Paris" in it.

чт, 6 дек. 2018 г. в 13:52, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch>:

> Just to inject a bit of OT here
>
> - the EN name of the Vierwaldstättersee is Lake Lucerne
>
> - the literal translation is "lake of the four forest settlements" (only
> loosely related to the notion of cantons)
>
> In both cases naming the lake  "Lucerne" or "Vierwaldstätten" would
> obviously be nonsense.
>
> Simon
>
> Am 05.12.2018 um 19:55 schrieb marc marc:
> > Le 05. 12. 18 à 19:36, Eugene Podshivalov a écrit :
> >> The name tag is abused very often and systematically.
> >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/48.86138/2.36028
> > just because a hotel's name contains the word hotel does not necessarily
> > mean it is a false name. Some names are "hotêl abc" and not "abc"
> >
> > the same for the lakes.
> > the lake near Geneva (France/Switzerland) is indeed called "Léman"
> > and it is a tautology (an error) to say Lake Léman.
> > But the "lake of the 4 cantons" in Switzerland is called the "lake of
> > the 4 cantons". If you ask someone where "of the 4 cantons" are located,
> > he don't understand what you're talking about because that not its name.
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