[OSM-talk] [OSM-newbies] avoid repeating the name tag twice

[Cartinus]

On Tuesday 05 May 2009 06:48:33 Pierre-André Jacquod wrote:
> Hi,
> I think that is OK. It is at least how I am  mapping in similar cases.
> regards
>
> Nick Black wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Was there an agreed answer to this issue.
> >
> > I want to tag an address in Kyiv using both the English and Ukrainian
> > street names.
> >
> > Sounds like I can do:
> >
> > addr:street:en:Tereschenkivska Street
> >
> > and
> >
> > addr:street:ua:Терещнкіівська
> >
> > Is this best practice?

If you see the addr:* tags as needing the complete address data on every 
object, then you can do as above.

If you think like me and see addr:country as useless database pollution. Then 
addr:street is just there to link the object with the address to a nearby 
street. This nearby street will have the tags highway=* + name=Терещнкіівська 
+ name:en=Tereschenkivska Street (+ maybe name:ua=Терещнкіівська) Then only 
the value of name= of the street needs to match the value of addr:street of 
the object with the address and you can do a more complex look-up to get all 
the multi-lingual versions of the address.


-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus