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

Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhauser at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 20:14:12 BST 2010


When I lived in Japan, almost all place names included the place type,
as specified on the Japan tagging page, both officially and in common
usage.  If you want to change this, I'd suggest first contacting some
of the Japanese OSMers.  If you remove it, it might actually make the
map look wrong from their perspective (ie--see this Yahoo Japan map
centered on Fukuoka City:
http://map.yahoo.co.jp/pl?type=scroll&lat=33.60887995386457&lon=130.37717309463633&z=12&mode=map&pointer=on&datum=wgs&fa=ks&home=on&hlat=33.654045269419&hlon=130.45133080948&layout=&ei=utf-8&p=fukuoka)

Also, (getting at the issue brought up in the ticket) Japanese users
might have some insight as to how Japanese language searches are
handled--not an easy thing!

Cheers,
Brad

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Peter Körner <osm-lists at mazdermind.de> wrote:
> Am 03.08.2010 17:24, schrieb Brian Quinion:
>>
>> Up till now it has been my opinion that all items entered with the the
>> type in the name were in error
>
> That's my opinion, too. I'm nut sure if we should fix it in Japan using some
> automatism (eg. automatic generated osm files), because the problem has
> grown that big.
>
> Peter
>
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