[Tagging] foreign names for stuff, was: "Mörthe und Mosel"

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Jan 5, 2023, 17:36 by frederik at remote.org:

> Hi,
>
> On 1/5/23 11:00, Anne- Karoline Distel wrote:
>
>> I personally found old, yet now maybe offensive names on OpenStreetMap very useful
>>
>
> Yes, this is something people occasionally quote as a reason for keeping old street names as well - genealogy and other historic research. Such names should always be in an old_name tag though, to avoid a multi-lingual map showing them prominently.
>
sometimes with language suffix, like old_name:de
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/old_name%3Ade#values

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