[Talk-GB] Place names

[Andy Robinson]

Matthew Westcott wrote:
>Sent: 08 March 2007 10:36 AM
>To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Place names
>
>On 8 Mar 2007, at 10:01, David Earl wrote:
>
>> The page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:place says use
>> 'name'
>> *not* place_name for nodes, but it is harmless to put both in.
>>
>> I've reinstated my change with a slight change in wording which I
>> hope will
>> satisfy the pedantry behind removing the comment in the first place.
>
>So what does place_name achieve that 'name' doesn't?

As far as I am aware nothing, it's just that place_name was in the original
map features and therefore it was used for some early labeling.

In the next version of map features we can tie the feature names to the
render names much better so these types of queries should come up less
frequently.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk

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>- Matt
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