[OSM-talk] Problems with names with postfixes / types

[Brian Quinion]

Hi,

I've been handed a search bug regarding being unable to search for 福岡
(Fukuoka) [1].  This has been caused by all cities in Japan being
entered in the form 福岡市 (Fukuoka City).  I would normally regard this
as a tagging error because the fact that it is a city is defined by
the place=city tag - but in this case it is country wide [2]

There has also been a recent increase in this happening in other
places.  For example places in the UK like "Leverton CP" [3] where CP
standard for Civil Parish, and a few relations in Germany now tagged 'xxx
Stadt'.  There are probably other examples I haven't noticed.

Up till now it has been my opinion that all items entered with the the
type in the name were in error and I have been marking all such items
'will not fix' and telling people to fix the data instead - but maybe
this is just my opinion rather than the correct decision.

Anyway I'd like to promote a discussion on the topic and hopefully
reach some sort of consensus.

Options?

--
 Brian

[1] http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/3149
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Japan_tagging
[3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/660893