[Tagging] Title of maps (information=map)

[Tod Fitch]

> On Oct 31, 2021, at 9:41 AM, Raphael <dafadllyn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I've just wanted to map a map including its title when i noticed that
> the wiki doesn't mention a tag for titles. I would have thought of
> `title`, but this tag has only been used 201 times. Instead, 41% of
> all maps (more than 34 000) have a `name` tag. This doesn't seem like
> a good idea to me as data users will need to convert `name` into
> title. (If this isn't done, e.g. searching for a town also finds a map
> with the name of the town in its title - which currently happens on
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/.)
> 
> Is the use of the name tag for titles accepted? Otherwise i'll propose
> using `title`.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Raphael
> 

I am confused as to why a map title is something that needs to be in the OSM database. In my case, and I assume most others, the titles I put on my printed maps are not directly correlated with any object in the center of the map. For example, I have two printed maps I create that cover one mountain. I label one something like “Mountain East” and the other something like “Mountain West”. The peak has a name of “Mountain” but there is nothing in the OSM database with “Mountain East” or “Mountain West”. Those are simply names I created out of thin air to describe to me what the maps cover.

What is your use case for having some object(s) in the OSM database tagged with a “title=*” tag?

—Tod

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