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

[Brian Quinion]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:57 AM, woll <woll at 2-islands.com> wrote:
> Better to keep this thread restricted to the subject of "is it valid to tag
> names with postfixes", and have any technical discussions separately in the
> trac report!

Yes - it was probably a mistake to reference the ticket in this
message, I was really just supplying some background.

The basic question is the one you have stated - Is it valid to tag
names with postfixes?

And spiting it down:

  Are there circumstances where it is / is not valid?

  Should different versions of the name be split into seperate tags?

  e.g. name:ja = 福岡福岡市
  base_name:ja = 福岡

  Is including the 市 tagging for render or is this the 'real' name?

  How do we define the 'real' name for consistency?


Basically it would make my life a lot easier as a data user if there
was some hard and fast rules in this  :)

--
 Brian