[OSM-talk] Old or dialectal names

[wiseLYNX]

Hi everybody,

I'm new to th OSM project, but I'm getting quite involved, as Torino
(Italy), where I live, is well covered with Yahoo aerials, and it's
quite effortless to fill in the neighborhoods of my home (which of
course I know very well, and I don't need to go around GPSing).

I have a question: I'm planning, as soon I'll be able, to insert maps
for a little town in the countryside, but I already know I'll have a
little issue. The place has streets and places called with "new" names,
given (I suppose) during the last century, but there are also (and
mainly) known with their older names. As an example, the streen were now
called Via Garibaldi, was called "Contrà ad mès" (middleway street, in
the local dialect). The local administration is trying to recover these
old names, and on plaques with street names are now showing both the new
and the old ones.

This issue anyway applies also in a number of other cases, where a place
is nown with an official but less used name, and an unofficial better
known one.

Is there a way to add this kind of information in OSM? I believe simply
putting the "other" name in parenthesis isn't the best solution..

thanks,

Enrico