[Talk-us] Alt_names on counties

[Greg Troxel]

stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> writes:

> Also, I find that "alt_name" works well for abbreviated county names,
> as in California in certain contexts, the name of a county without the
> word "county" appended unambiguously communicates a geography to
> someone.  (As in "From this part of Amador (county), you'll have to
> skirt the edge of El Dorado to get to Alpine").  Greg (M.) seems to
> indicate this happens in (Pima) Arizona, as well.

I can see that this is useful, but I see that as "how should a
renderer/router/searcher use the database", vs "we should add alt_foo
tags for anything that  someone might search on".