Dear user MenKauRa,

in recent changeset discussions (https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=1643499) other users have asked you not to use the “name \ place” nomenclature for POIs.

You have responded that you will do so if the rule is pointed out to you and/or you have claimed that if this was wrong, surely somebody would have told you.

I am hereby officially telling you that the “name” tag is used to record the name only, and not the location of something. If a store chain has many stores across the country, we will still only set (to use a well known example) “name=McDonald’s” and not “name=McDonald’s Sometown”. No place names, no addresses, no backslashes.

To avoid misunderstandings, the name is also intended to record only the name of something and not what something is; e.g. we would not tag “name=McDonald’s restaurant” but just “name=McDonald’s” and use a fitting amenity tag to describe what it is.

Please stop any and all appending of location names to names, whether with backslashes or any other separating characters.

To avoid misunderstandings, if this ruling leads you to make edits that the average mapper would find nonsensical, please discuss your reasoning with the DWG before you make these edits. Don’t make a ton of nonsensical edits and then point to this message claiming “the DWG wanted me to”.

To avoid misunderstandings, don’t use this message as a tool to overrule other people in discussions or revert their mapping; if you find that other users do what we’re telling you not to do, contact us and we’ll look at the situation.

Best regards
Frederik Ramm
OSMF Data Working Group
Ticket#2026060210000472