<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>The main problem multilingual map effort is trying to solve is how to calculate the language of the "name" tag. Without it, name tag becomes nearly useless. For example:<br><br></div>* An Italian user viewing a feature in China with two tags: "name" and "name:fr". In this case, "name:fr" tag is preferred because "name" is likely to be in Chinese - not great for an Italian speaker.<br></div>* Same tags, but the feature is in Italy -- now "name" tag is the better choice because the name is actually in the same language as the reader.<br><br></div>Without knowing the language of the "name" tag, we cannot use it as part of the "script matching" - give preference to languages that use the same script as the reader, even if the language is different.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Andy Townsend <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajt1047@gmail.com" target="_blank">ajt1047@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 24/04/2018 09:11, Rory McCann wrote:<br>
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Ireland has 2 official languges (Irish first & then English), but only ~2% of the population speak Irish daily. There are some legal defined regions of Ireland which are supposed to be "Irish speaking areas", but even there Irish is a minority language. So how should that be tagged? (Some day we'll get around to mapping the Gaeltachtaí)<br>
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Ireland's pretty much a "best case" for this as it does have defined language regions for Irish. Most places don't.<span class=""><br>
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If you want to know the language in a multi-lingual area, why not look at the name, and name:XX tags. If the name value is the same as a name:Z then Z is the language.<br>
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That won't always work. You can probably guess the example I'm going to pick next - <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/52241235" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>node/52241235</a> :)<br>
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For those unaware, the story there is summarised at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Daingean#Name" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>An_Daingean#Name</a> . It's a while since I've been there; not sure how much of a "cause celebre" it is currently. I've certainly heard people on RTE refer to it as "Dingle / An Daingean" (that's the English name and the commonly used Irish name but not the official Irish name...).<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
Andy<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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