[OSM-talk] Old or dialectal names

[wiseLYNX]

Michael Collinson wrote:
> Enrico,
> 
> Welcome!  I've ancestors from not far north of 
> Torino so I glad to see mapping activity there.

fine to hear, you know where they were from? I'm trying to involve some
friends and collegues of mine in the project, so it may be possible
other areas in Piemonte will be mapped.

> These tags may be what you need:
> 
> old_name - Old name
> loc_name - Local name
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features - see Name section
> 
> I don't they are yet rendered out on the 
> www.openstreetmap.org views, but at least the 
> information will be captured for feature use.
> 
> Also, purely speculatively, I wonder if the 
> dialect is supported as an ISO 3-letter code?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-3_codes

a quick serach resulted in this:

http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=pms


> We've been using 2-letter codes, so the following might be possible:
> 
> name:it=Via Garibaldi
> name:xyz=Contrà ad mès

so if the format name:isocode is ok, I'll put old names that way.

thanks averybody for the fast and complete reply!

Enrico