Template:Map Features:name

Name

The name=* tag is the primary tag used for mapping the name of an element. See the page titled Names for an introduction on its usage.

Key	Value	Element	Comment
name	User defined		The common default name. Notes: 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) Do not abbreviate words: abbreviations For details refer to Names#Good_practice.
name:<xx>	User defined		Name in different language; e.g., name:fr=Londres. Note that all key variants below can use a language suffix. See: Multilingual names.
name:left[:<xx>], name:right[:<xx>]	User defined		Used when a way has different names for different sides (e.g., a street that's forming the boundary between two municipalities).
int_name[:<xx>]	User defined		International name. Consider using language specific names instead; e.g., name:en=.... International does not (necessarily) mean English. It is used to give the name transliterated to Latin script in Belarus, Bulgaria, Greece, Kazakhstan and Northern Macedonia
loc_name[:<xx>]	User defined		Local name.
nat_name[:<xx>]	User defined		National name.
official_name[:<xx>]	User defined		Official name. Useful where there is some elaborate official name, while a different one is a common name typically used. Example: official_name=Principat d'Andorra (where "name" is name=Andorra).
old_name[:<xx>]	User defined		Historical/old name, still in some use.
ref_name[:<xx>]	User defined		Unique, human-readable name of this object in an external data management system.
reg_name[:<xx>]	User defined		Regional name.
short_name[:<xx>]	User defined		Should be a recognizable commonly-used short version of the name, not a nickname (use alt_name for that), useful for searching (recognized by Nominatim).
sorting_name[:<xx>]	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.
alt_name[:<xx>]	User defined		Alternative name by which the feature is known. If there is a name that does not fit in any of the above keys, alt_name can be used; e.g., name=Field Fare Road and alt_name=Fieldfare Road, or name=University Centre and alt_name=Grad Pad. In rare cases, the key is used for multiple semicolon-separated names; e.g. alt_name=name1;name2;name3, but this usage is not preferred.
nickname[:<xx>]	User defined		Nickname (e.g. "Warschauer Allee" for BAB 2 in Germany 3140168 3140168).
name_1 , name_2 , ...			Do not use this tag, suffixed name tagging for multiple values is deprecated.

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Template for the Name table in the Map Features page. Use the default English text or use the template arguments for your translations

Usage

All parameters are optional. By default, text is in English. English writers shall write their comments in the template itself (avoiding double edition). Other languages are translated in template arguments, not in the template itself.

== section header ==
|name=        (section header line)
|description= (displayed before the table; optional)

== One key/value row ==
|name:key=   |name:value=   |name:desc=   |name:render=   |name:photo=

Template for copy/paste...

<noinclude>{{languages}}</noinclude>
{{Map_Features:name
|name=
|description=

|head:key=
|head:value=
|head:element=
|head:desc=
|head:render=
|head:photo=

|name:key=
|name:value=
|name:desc=
|alt_name:value=
|alt_name:desc=
|official_name:value=
|official_name:desc=
|int_name:value=
|int_name:desc=
|nat_name:value=
|nat_name:desc=
|new_name:value=
|new_name:desc=
|reg_name:value=
|reg_name:desc=
|loc_name:value=
|loc_name:desc=
|old_name:value=
|old_name:desc=
|internat_names:value=
|internat_names:desc=
|short_name:value=
|short_name:desc=
|sorting_name:value=
|sorting_name:desc=
}}