[Tagging] Title of maps (information=map)

[Raphael]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 at 19:27, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
<tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
> See also
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2021-January/thread.html#59086
> "Is information board title also its name?" linked from
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:information%3Dboard

Thanks for the link! Hopefully more people answer this time. Only
three opinions (two in favour of `name` for board titles and one
against) aren't representative.




On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 at 19:27, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
<tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
> For information boards it seems fine to me to consider that their name is
> the title.
>
> In other words I would use name key. Usually I am quite strict with name tag being
> only for names (with substantial effort taken to remove stuff like natural=tree name=Oak).
> But here such names seems fine.
>
> See also
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2021-January/thread.html#59086
> "Is information board title also its name?" linked from
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:information%3Dboard
>
>
> Oct 31, 2021, 17:41 by dafadllyn at gmail.com:
>
> 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
>
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