[patch] Use place_name as the name for place multipolygons

[Zverikk]

Although there are only 680 uses of place_name tag on relations (according to taginfo), it is widely used in western Russia. But the name formatter in JOSM only supports name, ref etc. for naming. We'd like to have place_name shown as well, when name is absent.

[Zverikk]

Add place_name to the list of naming tags

[mjulius]

I would not encourage the use of place_name. Why not use name instead? That it already exists so many time is not enough of an argument to support it when a better solution exists.

[anonymous]

-1. Unless there's some compelling reason why the name of the place can't be in name= instead of place_name= this is a data error, not a rendering error.

[Zverikk]

It's not a data error, but a common mapping practice, at least in Russia. I agree that it's a bit ugly workaround, but can easily be fixed sometime. And it would not hurt community to support this tag — I doubt there are no other deprecated or country-specific tags in JOSM presets.

[mjulius]

If there are country specific tags that take care of certain circumstances in that country it might be a good idea if JOSM supports them (If there are a lot of them they might be better taken care of in a plugin.). If there are ugly workarounds that happen to be used in some country JOSM should not treat them in any special way and the workarounds should be fixed, IMHO.

[Zverikk]

Isn't finger-pointing and name-calling the validator plugin's task? Does this patch break anything?

Users who didn't use place_name won't use it, because in the wiki it's marked as deprecated, and nothing in the interface mentions this tag. But editing data which already has that tag would be much easier.

[mjulius]

Hey, the "ugly workaround" was your's.

The patch probably doesn't break anything, but, from my POV it is bloat. JOSM can not account for every tagging scheme someone might be using.

In the concrete example the better solution would be to be able to define in the rendering style which tags are to be used for labelling an object instead of hard-coding that into JOSM. Then, you could define your own style if you want to see place_name.

[stoecker]

I still see no sense for this. When somebody want to use it, it can be changed in josms advanced preferences, but it should not be default.