Agreed.

One of the experts from Swisstopo responded recently after I gave him the hint that OSM is doing a comparison.

He answered:

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Die Schreibweisen im GWR haben m.E. eine sehr gute Qualittät. (...).

Gerade aber beim Ae, Oe, Ue resp. Ä, Ö, Ü existiert heute kein Standard ausser, dass man pro Gemeinde einheitlich schreibt.

Ich habe das Wiki durch folgende Erläuterungen ergänzt: [1]. 

Wichtig scheint mir auch, dass man in OSM die Version verwendet Ae/OE/Ue resp. Ä Ö Ü, welche offiziell ist (d.h. die Schrweibweise von GWR zu verweden, würde ich immer empfehlen).

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Stefan

[1] http://giswiki.hsr.ch/Schreibweise_Strassennamen#N.C3.A4heres_zu_Umlauten_von_A.2C_O.2C_U_am_Anfang_von_Strassennamen

2012/11/12 Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch>

It may be very well regulated, but that doesn't stop people from making mistakes.

An (non-name) example: http://qa.poole.ch/ch-roads/AG/4001.html There are three obviously wrong PLZ6 values (this is actually a surprise since it would be easy to catch these automatically). I suspect these are simple typos during data entry, it is unreasonable to expect it to be different with names. If we suspect a real error, best would to check with the municipality in question since they did the data entry in the first place.

Simon

Am 11.11.2012 23:36, schrieb Stefan Keller:

Dear all

The designation of geographic place names is very well regulated. Although there are sometimes deviations for historical and other reasons. And there are even lively discussions between historicians, linguists and others.

This is the official page about geographic names: http://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/internet/swisstopo/en/home/topics/toponymie.html 

And this is an inofficial - but at least for German very up-to-date - Wiki page about almost all questions around geographic names:

http://giswiki.hsr.ch/Schreibweise_geografische_Namen 

If there is any specific question I can forward them to experts in german and french at Swisstopo.

Stefan

2012/11/9 Michael Kleidt <m_kleidt@bluewin.ch>

In Winterthur is a strange case:

Hessengütlistrasse

road

Hessengüetlistrasse

The street signs on both ends of the street are showing "Hessengüetlistrasse".
The near hotel is named 'Hotel Hessengüetli' and is in the 'Im Hessengüetli' street.

Is this a typo in the offical Data? Should I tag it with official_name=Hessengütlistrasse ?


Regards

mdk

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