[Talk-ca] Updating Langley and use of alt_name?

[Corey Burger]

I would do both, as you might be looking for the exact location or the
municipal border.

Corey
On Feb 19, 2014 3:10 AM, "Daniel Friesen" <daniel at nadir-seen-fire.com>
wrote:

> I'm a little new to OSM, recently I found that neither of the city
> boundaries for the Langley area showed up in searches for "Langley".
> The issue was that neither had any type of name entry with just "Langley"
>
> I added an alt_name=Langley to both of the boundaries myself:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2031946 (City of Langley)
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2031947 (Township of Langley)
>
> I was wondering if alt_name was the correct one to use for this. How to
> organize naming tags seems to be a regional thing.
>
>
> Also when I brought this up in other channels it was recommended that I
> add the Langley place node (http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/52555902)
> as a 'label' member to the relevant city border.
> However when I look around at other cities like Surrey and Vancouver I
> do not see this relation setup elsewhere.
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]
>
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