[OSM-talk] Alternative placenames?

[Barnett, Phillip]

Sorry, that was me being overly enthusiastic and straying too far south!
The variant I removed is extremely uncommon, (verging on spelling
mistake?)
My standard test for typos is the Google score : 
Porthmadog (official Welsh spelling) gets 481,000 hits
Portmadoc (official English spelling)gets 27,800 hits
Porthmadoc gets 660 hits - down in the random noise sector of the
internet...

As to the larger case, I'm not sure it's a good idea to put "SpellingA
or SpellingB" as a value - the renderers won't pick that up so you'll
get ugly maps...

Phillip


 
 



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-----Original Message-----

From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of David Earl
Sent: 27 May 2007 13:57
To: Dan Karran; OpenStreetMap
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Alternative placenames?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
> [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org]On Behalf Of Dan Karran
> Sent: 27 May 2007 13:52
> To: OpenStreetMap
> Subject: [OSM-talk] Alternative placenames?
>
>
> How have other people dealt with alternative placenames, where there
> are two commonly used spellings in the same language?
>
> The example I'm thinking of is Cregneash in the Isle of Man, which is
> often spelled Cregneish (on some signposts and I think on some
> Ordnance Survey maps, for example). I suspect it's just a name that's
> changed over time, but as they are both used, they should probably
> both be recorded on the place node.
>
> I was thinking maybe something like name:en:alternative=Cregneish?


For name=Porthmadog in Wales, I put "name:en=Portmadoc or Porthmadoc"
(the
name finder would then find either.)

However I notice someone has removed the second one so it now just reads
name:en=Portmadoc. I have heard it called both.

David


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