[OSM-talk] very long multiple int_name tags in Near East

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Wed Nov 20 10:25:52 UTC 2013


On 2013-11-20 11:21, Pieren wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Yes they should. The first version has a comment "bulk import of 
>> places", so
>> I assume other places in the vicinity have the same problem.
>> Basically it is an example of how not to do imports.
> 
> Yes. And the changeset is for 24174 place names. Probably the easiest
> is to remove the int_name tag completely.

Certainly the easiest. But maybe some logic could be applied. Are the 
names listed in the same order of country every time? Some names can 
probably be identified by the charset: greek and hebrew are easy picks.

Maarten




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