Okay. I’ll try a summary: We have the choise between two systems:
– semicolon system – alt_name_1 system (Other versions like alt_name:1 or alt_name1 seem to be not interesting and have very little occurence in the database, probably errors during the HOT imports). Both have its advantages and disadvantages. Having both systems at the same time in use does not make it easier: In the database, we have currently about 2300 nodes and about 3000 ways with the key “alt_name” and the character “;” in the value. We have also about 3800 nodes with “alt_name_” as part of the key. Almost all of them are in West Africa and come probably from recent HOT activity. We have about 80 ways with “alt_name_” as part of the key. (Roland Olbricht had done some overpass stuff about this at https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-September/070863.html) On the wiki, we have alt_name_* since 2011 (introduced at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:name&oldid=713311 on the wiki – I could not find a discussion about that) but people did not use this system, but they almost always used the semicolon system instead. Until the HOT activity with the Ebola response … In this current thread, both solutions have had supporters, but there has been some more support for the semicolon system. The current situation with two different, incompatible solutions is IMHO not satisfying. So I would propose to 1.) do a formal voting (I would propose the semicolon system) 2.) after that: ask for support for this in Nomination (and maybe other software on which the HOT people rely) for the voted and accepted solution 3.) as mid-term goal: fade out the usage of the not-accepted solution (maybe later even with a mechanical edit – not sure if this is easy) 4.) as long-term goal: ask software to stop using the not-accepted solution. Thoughts? Lukas Sommer 2014-11-27 15:21 GMT+00:00 Erik Johansson <erjo...@gmail.com>: > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Brian Quinion < > openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk> wrote: > >> On 25 November 2014 at 13:30, althio forum <althio.fo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I don't even know which keys are currently under use by Nominatim and >> other >> > data consumers and how that could evolve in the future. >> >> At the moment nominatim supports >> >> alt_name_[0-9]+:<language_code>=<name> >> >> for alt names >> >> I've added this to the wiki >> > > +1 > > This is also how I have done it when I've worked with names. I do not like > semicolons at all. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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