[Talk-us] Alt_names on counties

[Mateusz Konieczny]

I would use rather short_name.

But I see no valid reason for removing then.

Have you alerted this active user that you
started conversation about his/her mapping?
26 Dec 2019, 02:25 by tod at fitchfamily.org:

> I’ve noticed that a number of counties in California and Arizona have what seems to be unneeded alt_name tags in their boundary relations. For example Pima County, Arizona has name=“Pima County” and alt_name=“Pima”. Same for Pinal County in Arizona and Riverside, Orange, Kern and Ventura counties in California. But this does not seem universal as the few counties I looked at in Washington state have only a name=* tag (e.g. name=“Columbia County”).
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> I don’t see a wiki page for the standard for this in the United States. Is there one I’ve missed?
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> Assuming there is not standard for this, should there be? And what should it be? (My preference is to remove an alt_name that is simply the name without “County”.)
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> For what it is worth, it looks like the alt_names for counties in Arizona and California were added in 2014 by the user “revent” who is still actively mapping borders around the world.
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> Thanks!
> Tod
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