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Just wanted to say i've started editing for my area, tomorrow when driving around I shall my trusty gps on all day and see what streets i get, and then see if i can figure out how to add stuff, not just edit the wrong roads!

So far i'd added the road names to the roads in my area that before there were none :)

As i've stated before I work as a courier so most of the roads shall hopefully be added completly within the next few weeks, but I just want ask one question (as i'm not sure ware to ask questions, sorry for using the diary for this!)

What happens with postcodes? are postcodes used at all, can I add a tag on the road for the postcodes that I know?

And finally, I deliver to a lot of new housing estates that do not yet appear on any maps, even the 2008 ones! (at least i've looked on the navteq and teleatlas is it? and there not their, even tho they've been here for a good few years, but some upcoming new ones, and, oh yes, Is it possible to add 2 different road names? for example, most of the new housing estates thing its really cool to have an english and a welsh street name, now my sat nav only has one, and usually addresses are either, with no sort of order, maps only ever display one, can i add another tag under road name called 'alternative name' or perchance say one as 'native langauge' and the other as english road name?

Many thanks, I was actually thinking of trying to start something like this before i found it! (saved me many countless hours of frustration as i'm not a very good programmer..)

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Comment from alv on 24 April 2008 at 06:52

You can add a tag 'postal_code' on any street.
The more common/proper/first in the street sign/official name goes in 'name' and the Welsh name in 'name:cy' or the enter the English name as 'name:en' if the Welsh name is the "primary" name. The two letter codes for languages are the same as in some standard. That's how it's done at least in Finland where we have both Finnish (name:fi) and Swedish (name:sv) names for many of the streets. Only what's in 'name' gets rendered, for now at least.

Comment from Steve Hill on 24 April 2008 at 15:25

There are some third party map servers rendering in other languages. For example, OpenStreetMap Cymraeg:
http://sucs.org/~rollercow/cyosm/

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