[OSM-talk] Baghdad maps

Bruce Cowan bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com
Thu Feb 15 23:46:33 GMT 2007


Firstly, I apologise for this late reply, and any word wrap problems
hereafter.

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 10:09 +0800, Mike Collinson wrote:
> 
> The situation of having a public name and an official name is not 
> uncommon worldwide.  Here in Manila there are a number of main 
> arteries which are shown on all tourist maps an street gazetteers 
> with the "official" name but you'll get blank looks unless you use 
> the older "public" name.  So OSM can provide service here.  I wonder 
> if we are missing a "common_name" or "official_name" tag here? Just a 
> thought.  Currently I'm entering things like "Buendia (Senator Gil 
> Puyat Avenue)"

Map Features already lists such a thing [1], I used it for the 
"Clyde Arc [2]",which I have always known as the "Squinty bridge" (it's
at an angle to the River Clyde).

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:name
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Arc
-- 
Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com>





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