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+/- name Description The primary tag used for naming an element. Group Name Element help Tools for this tag Combinations worldwide in Australia/Oceania in Europe (list) in Asia (list) in Central America (list) in South America (list) in Africa (list)  (via overpass turbo - help)

Usage

See also: Names

To provide details of the name for a feature included in OpenStreetMap. See Names for more information on usage.

Values

See below for the main values:

Key	Value	Element	Comment
name	User Defined		The common default name. (Note: For disputed areas, please use the name as displayed on e.g. street signs for the name tag. Put all alternatives into either localized name tags (e.g. name:tr/name:el) or the variants (e.g. loc_name/old_name/alt_name). Thank you.)
name:<lg>	User Defined		Name in different language eg. name:fr=Londres. See: Bilingual street names
alt_name	User Defined		another name or names by which the feature is known e.g. name=Field Fare Road and alt_name=Fieldfare Road, or name=University Centre and alt_name=Grad Pad
int_name	User Defined		International name (note: consider using language specific names instead, e.g. name:en=... - see below - International does not (necessarily) mean English
loc_name	User Defined		Local name
nat_name	User Defined		National name
official_name	User Defined		It has been created for country names but we need a clarification for other cases between "name", "int_name", "loc_name" and "official_name". Example: official_name=Principado de Andorra (where "name" is name=Andorra)
old_name	User Defined		Historical name
reg_name	User Defined		Regional name
short_name	User Defined		Common abbreviation, useful for searching (recognized by Nominatim)
sorting_name	User Defined		name, used for correct sorting of names — This is only needed when sorting names cannot be based only on their orthography (using the Unicode Collation Algorithm with collation tables tailored by language and script, or when sorted lists of names are including names written in multiple languages and/or scripts) but requires ignoring some parts such as: ignoring leading articles, or lowering the relative importance of first names cited before a last name, ignoring the generic part of a street name when it occurs before the specific name (e.g. in French with "rue", "boulevard", "place", etc.), all of them being ignored at the primary sort level and not easily inferable by a preprocessing algorithm.

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