Hi again Rorym,

I poked about some more in practice mode and found the tag "Freshwater (Previously Harbord)", so my mistake as I'm still learning the rules. It looks like the suburb is literally named as "Freshwater (Previously Harbord)". I'm using the Potlatch interface on OpenStreetMap, how do I apply the instuctions at ? I'm puzzled because opening the tag for editing gives fields into which people are simply entering "plain language" text without any codes.

Hi Rorym,

Thanks for pointing me to those tag comments. In the case of "Oliver Road" v "Oliver Street" I don't see that as appropriate because it has never been "Road" and always been "Street". The "old" name was actually an error by a previous editor and was never used locally or officially. So in this case I don't see a need for a tag comment to explain an error.
I see the value of the comment tag in the case of "Freshwater" v "Harbord", but as I wrote, the editable map didn't have the suburb name at all. I don't know how the label "Freshwater (Previously Harbord)" was being applied if it wasn't available in the edit window.