[OSM-talk] alt_name tag

[Ed Avis]

I think that alt_name is useful to add variants of the name for searching.
Often there is an abbreviated and a full version of the same name, and one
is not any more 'official' than the other.  This is often the case with churches.

For streets that have been renamed, I would prefer a former_name or old_name
tag, which should also be read by search engines.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>