Duplicate villages/cities

theipu · 2018-03-07T16:18:29.000Z

I noticed that some villages and cities have duplicates, at least that what I see in GNOME maps:

Is it on purpose or should I remove one of them?

SafwatHalaby · 2018-03-12T20:13:42.000Z

I’ve warned about this some time ago. This is usually due to the bad convention of adding names to residential areas in addition to the place tags. I think all places of the MOIN import are tagged like that.

original: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=58016

theipu · 2018-03-23T13:44:00.000Z

So if I want to try and fix it (probably manually ) what should I remove/change?

SafwatHalaby · 2018-04-03T20:26:29.000Z

Let me study the details and see what needs fixing, and if I can automate this.

SafwatHalaby · 2018-06-13T03:52:00.000Z

I think the “name” tag should be removed from landuse=residential polygon whenever there’s already a “place” polygon with the same name. Does anyone have any problems with that?

valleyofdawn · 2019-01-13T07:41:59.000Z

To make matters worse, sometimes the two English place names are different: Zefat & Safed, Beer Sheva & Be’er Sheva.
Also sometimes it’s a phonetic transliteration and sometimes the conventional English biblical name.