I agree it should be fixed in OSM. I recently submitted a patch to JOSM to flag this in the validation.<br><a href="https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/10693">https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/10693</a><br><div><br></div><div>There are still about 25,000 objects with place_name in them:</div><div><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/place_name">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/place_name</a><br></div><div>That's too many for me to fix, and I'm not keen on trying to do a mass tag change. </div><div><br></div><div>Since this tag is widely used for cities, I'd like for mkgmap to read it in. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed Nov 05 2014 at 9:45:37 PM Nelson A. de Oliveira <<a href="mailto:naoliv@gmail.com">naoliv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Brian Egge <<a href="mailto:brianegge@gmail.com" target="_blank">brianegge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> public static List<String> getNameTags(Properties props) {<br>
> - String nameTagProp = props.getProperty("name-tag-<u></u>list", "name");<br>
> + String nameTagProp = props.getProperty("name-tag-<u></u>list",<br>
> "name,place_name");<br>
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place_name is a key that should be fixed in OSM itself:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/drop_recommendation_for_place_name" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<u></u>wiki/Proposed_features/drop_<u></u>recommendation_for_place_name</a><br>
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