[Talk-GB] Best practice for building names and searchability

[Colin Smale]

If it ends in "club", I wonder if it's the name of the building or the name of an organisation that uses the building.

You might be better treating the club as a POI instead of an address.


On 8 June 2021 19:03:47 CEST, Mat Attlee <mattattlee at gmail.com> wrote:
>What's the best practice for building names and searchability? There is
>a
>building (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/272507642) that goes by
>several
>names:
>
>   - It has a big sign saying General Browning Club
>   - A smaller sign saying General Browning M.O.T.H.
>   - For the last few years it has been operating as MOTH Club however
>   based on my surveys they haven't added new signage for it
>   - MOTH is an acronym for Memorable Order of Tin Hats
>
>I've tried to get this correctly reflected using old_name, short_name
>and
>name fields, however my concern is are all these fields surfaced in
>search?
>For example when I use OsmAnd and search for "MOTH Club" it doesn't
>come up.
>
>Given the building is a popular music venue people would primarily
>search
>for the term "MOTH Club". Should the primary name field reflect the
>name on
>the building or what people would search for?
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