[mkgmap-dev] Country names

Thu Jun 9 20:05:47 BST 2011

Am 09.06.2011 20:33, schrieb Marko Mäkelä:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 09:22:36PM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
>> Russia uses alt_name for the "everyday" name and name for the official
>> name:
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/60189
>
> I noticed that a few languages use name:* instead of alt_name:* for the
> "everyday" name and do not define the official name at all for Russia.
> Has there been any discussion on this on the tagging lists? I would not
> want to start an edit war.
>
> 	Marko

I have also seen name:* (official name) and short_name:*.