[OSM-talk] loc_name vs. reg_name

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 08:17:58 UTC 2018


On 19/09/18 15:28, Bernhard R. Fischer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Ok, basically I understand the difference between "local" and "regional".
>
> But actually I thought that this/these tags are used for names of
> entities which are used by locals (in contrast to the official name of
> something).
>
> In this case, having two such tags would imply that there are locals who
> call an entity by loc_name. And that there are other locals which are
> "not so local" as the previous ones (not living directly there) which
> call the same entity "reg_name".
>
> Is that correct?
>
Yes.






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