I would suggest name:<start year><end year>=*
e.g., name:1887-1960=Osborne House Same as for old names of streets. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 14, 2018, at 10:34 AM, Adam Franco <adamfra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a question about `name=` and variants of names. I've been reading a > lot of local history and in the architecture/history world, houses are > generally named for the first resident that they were built for. E.g. > "Johnson house" and are referred to in this way even after many generations > of new owners. After adding a few of these names to the `name=` tag I > realized that this might be problematic as `name=` seems to be given higher > rendering priority than house number (at least on openstreetmap.org and > Maps.me), potentially causing wayfinding confusion as addresses disappear and > long-dead owners names start popping up. > > For some of these buildings they are commonly referred to by the public using > this historical-owner name. For example the "Osborne house" in my town was > referred to as such in public meetings and newspapers several years ago when > it was picked up and moved. It now has a new address as a result of this move. > > In many other cases buildings are locally referred to by their current > address or current occupant. Especially in the case of a building taken up by > a single business, locals will simply refer to the building as the "<name of > business> building". The historical-owner name is still valid and > interesting for cross-referencing historical materials, but it likely isn't > well known and in many cases and wouldn't be useful for wayfinding as it > would not be found on signage. > > What are folks thoughts about these historical-owner building names when they > aren't well-known? Should they go in a `description=` tag, `alt_name=`, or > some other tag? > > Thanks for any insight you can provide. > Adam > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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