[Talk-GB] What's in a name
Peter J Stoner
stonerpj at mytraveline.info
Tue Sep 15 20:19:00 BST 2009
In message on 15 Sep 2009, Chris Hill wrote:
> I live near Hull, its proper name of course is Kingston upon Hull. It
> has the long name on the map, but everyone knows it as Hull. I think it
> would be better to use the shorter name and adding the long name as
> alt_name. Any comments?
This is how the local authority has set up Hull in the National Public
Transport Gazetteer.
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