[OSM-talk] international name rendering

Bruce Cowan bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com
Sat May 26 13:30:34 BST 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 15:16 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> Yes. It's not that uncommon for local features to have local names.
> It's arguable whether they should appear on the map, but I think it's
> reasonable that if people search for the local name it does actually
> find them.

There is a bridge in Glasgow known as the Squinty Bridge, but its
official name is the Clyde Arc. I have never heard anyone call it the
Clyde Arc though. It is tagged loc_name=Squinty Bridge name=Clyde Arc.
-- 
Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com>





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