On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:19:41AM +0100, Simon Poole wrote:
Am 09.11.2012 10:13, schrieb Fred Jelk:
Hi Simon,
o.k. I think, in french (Switzerland), the capital letters are without an accent. I will change these names in OSM.
IMHO I would leave what is -really- on the sign in name (abbreviations expanded), and add the GWR value to "official_name" if it is different (only IMHO). But if the name on the sign doesn't have capital letters with an accent it is clearly not necessary to add them.
+100
Do not change name just because the GWR list says so.
There is a similar case in Wettingen (and I'm sure many more):
SIgn posted: Alb.-Zwyssigstrasse Expanded (in name): Alberich-Zwyssigstrasse (really not easy to guess)
I've added
alt_name: Alb.-Zwyssigstrasse
I can see the use for that because guessing the abbriviation for Alberich is not exactly trivial.
and
official_name: Alb. Zwyssigstrasse (for the GWR version of the name).
Having alternative names just for a difference in accent or hyphenation is really overkill. Any software that uses the name tag should be able to do a fuzzy match betwenn the different versions. If it doesn't, bug the developer to fix the software.
Sarah