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

[Andrew Hain]

Andrew Buck <andrew.r.buck <at> gmail.com> writes:

> However, since the conversion scripts have changed over time and since
> some work was done manually by others, we ended up using two slightly
> different forms for the alt_name field in the case where there are
> more than one alt_name for a given place.  Some use the form
> alt_name_2 and some use alt_name:2 (with the 2 extending to higher
> numbers as well, some of these places have as many as 6 or 7 alt_name
> entries).

Are some of these names actually names in different languages that should 
be tagged name:wo and so on?

--
Andrew