[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis name tags

Peter Miller peter.miller at itoworld.com
Thu Jan 20 17:28:07 GMT 2011


On 20 January 2011 17:20, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:

> How about dialects?
>
> name:en
> name:cy
> name:gd
> name:gv
> name:sco
> name:ga
>
> Whatever other regional languages we have.
>
>
we believe that the OS Locator content is always in English. In the Western
Isles the name field for roads in OSM often holds the Gaelic version with
the English in en:name hence our support for that tag. Do tell me if I am
wrong on that.

Regards,


Peter





> Tom
>
>
> On 20 January 2011 17:02, Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> gregorymarler has asked on twitter about which tags we check within the
>> OSM Analysis service.
>>
>> The answer currently is as follows:
>> name
>> en:name
>> alt_name
>> not:name
>>
>> Gregory also mentioned old_name which we will add shortly when others have
>> had time to give feedback. Do people want any more?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
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