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

[Paul Norman]

> From: Daniel Friesen [mailto:daniel at nadir-seen-fire.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 3:10 AM
> To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-ca] Updating Langley and use of alt_name?
> 
> 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 think it's reasonable. "Langley" could refer to either, but it's 
not the official name of either, or the less formal name they commonly
use. alt_name sounds suitable.

For those who aren't local

- Both the City and Township are incorporated municipalities
  in local terms, which maps to admin_level=8
- They are adjacent, but do not intersect, nor are they within each other.
- The Township is much larger, and has open data. The City is smaller, and
  has GIS department consisting of one person.
- There is often no distinction between the two, and their addresses are on
  a grid layout 

That's all fairly simple, but the place node is more complicated. Langley is
not a "city" in British English, but a "town". However, I'm not sure that 
its place=town node can be tied solely to the admin relation for one or the 
other. I'm not sure what to do, but one suggestion was to put it as the
label
of both.

Label is a bit of a misnomer really - the only current function of it is to 
Indicate that the place node and admin boundary somewhat refer to the same 
thing. It is not used by the standard stylesheet for rendering of
administrative 
boundary labels, nor are there plans for it to be 
(https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/105)