<div dir="ltr"><div>I do quite a bit of mapping in Thailand and generally speaking, mappers in our community of OSMers don't tagThai names for brands like McDonalds, KFC, Burger King, 7-Elevens, Starbucks, and simlilar outfits. Occasionally, someone will add a name in Thai characters to one of these but the venues mostly do not display any Thai characters in their signage. I don't frequent any of them so cannot say that the menus inside use Thai or not but I doubt they do. <br></div><div><br></div><div>It has been our practice to include all three variants of the names of roads and shops, that is, name=(Thai script), name:th (also in Thai script) and name:en. The idea here was that renderers who looked for either name or name:th but not both would be able to properly display those names in the Thai language. It's redundant, I know, but that's what we've been doing. We do similar tagging for banks, fuel stations, and many other shops. Not everyone who maps in Thailand is using our guidelines so you're likely to see some variation in the resulting maps.</div><div><br></div><div>Not sure if I helped this thread. I haven't been following it but when I saw this post about Thailand wanted to throw in what I know.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:07 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 19:54, Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">There are much better food options than McDonald’s in Thailand!</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd be astounded if there weren't! - I don't even eat the stuff here :-) Just picked the name as something that's found world-wide.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Actually I believe use the original, English brand name on the signs there. </div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=</a>แมคโดนัลด์%20chang%20mai#map=19/18.78375/99.00043</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Fortunately, Nominatum will find you things in Thailand even if you search in English, as long as people have added a name:en or an international name in Latin script. </div><div dir="ltr">Eg name:th=แมคโดนัลด์ and name:en=McDonald’s for the examples above. </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>OK, now I'm getting even more confused?</div><div><br></div><div>Macca's is marked as both name:en & name:th & shows on the map as McDonalds</div><div><br></div><div>But the street just above <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/77991177" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/77991177</a>, hotel near by <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/301472018" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/301472018</a> & bank up above <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3416994635" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3416994635</a> are all marked as both name:en=whatever & name:th, but all display in Thai characters?</div><div><br></div><div>Other shops eg The Scoope <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4873971522" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4873971522</a>, Burger King <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/907621996" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/907621996</a> & Plaza Hair <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3417022297" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3417022297</a> just say name= & all appear in English. Would I be right in guessing that they've been entered in English so will appear that way?</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br class="m_-2966229561586750790gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 19:07, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">It is not about language, it rather depends on the local script. Here you can see someone has added name:en for a McDonald's which I otherwise would not have found:<br></div></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/355033671" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/355033671</a></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Similar thing - to me, Macca's appears in squiggles, despite also being listed as name:en=McDonalds, while Giordano's across the road <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4620121040" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4620121040</a> just has name=Giordano & appears in English?</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry about the questions :-(</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Graeme </div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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