[OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

Andrew Hain andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk
Thu Sep 11 12:19:55 UTC 2014


Roland Olbricht <roland.olbricht <at> gmx.de> writes:


> 
> This underpins the two theses:
> 
> 1. The solution with ";" is far more established than the solution with 
> prefix "alt_name_".
> 
> 2. It is altogether a sometimes but not often used feature.

The TIGER import used name_n istead of alt_name_n.

Have any data consumers got a preference for one or the other?

--
Andrew




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