<div><div><div dir="auto">I forgot to mention that it is already possible to add “<span style="font-family:monospace">озеро” </span>with expiation alternative name tags. For example, here in Indonesia a river might have </div><div dir="auto">waterway=river</div><div dir="auto">name=Baliem</div><div dir="auto">name:id=Sungai Baliem</div><div dir="auto">name:en=Baliem River</div><div dir="auto">alt_name:id=Kali Baliem</div><div dir="auto">“Sungai” is the word for river in standard Indonesian and “Kali” is a dialectal variant.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So in Russia it might be appropriate to tag Lake Baikal like this:</div><div dir="auto">natural=water</div><div dir="auto">water=lake</div><div dir="auto">name=Байкал</div><div dir="auto">name:ru=Байкал</div><div dir="auto">name:en=Lake Baikal</div><div dir="auto">alt_name:ru=Байкал <span style="font-family:monospace">озеро</span></div><div dir="auto"><font face="monospace">(</font>Or is it “<span style="font-family:monospace">озеро </span>Байкал“?)<br></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">WITh this tagging, a search for “<span style="font-family:monospace">озеро” and “</span>Байкал” should work fine.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This may also help foreign visitors who might not know the Russian word for lake.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Joseph</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 8:28 AM Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">Assuming that “<span style="font-family:monospace">озеро” </span>is a more or less direct translation of “lake”, then the Russian use is going to have to search for “water=lake”, though I hope someone will make a translation interface for Overpass Turbo that will understand natural language queries.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You wouldn’t suggest that I add tags such as “alam=air” and “air=danau” to every lake in your country so that Indonesians can search in their own language, perhaps?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(That’s “natural=water” and “water=lake” in Bahasa Indonesia. Yes, “air” means “water”)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Joseph</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 8:19 AM Sergio Manzi <<a href="mailto:smz@smz.it" target="_blank">smz@smz.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I understand your concerns and tend to agree, but how would you
manage the situation where a Russian want to name the lake as it
is known in his language, just "Байкал" (<i>assuming this is the
case...</i>), but also wanting to find it with the "<tt>озеро</tt>"
(lake) keyword?<br>
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<div class="m_-602103221692335699m_2334062795273587175m_3827350240693142340m_6604445123620933190moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-12-06 00:12, Joseph Eisenberg
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<blockquote type="cite">But
I don’t see a need to translate water=lake into Russian; lest we
have to do this for every tag in every language. But I believe the
Editor applications, like JOSM and ID, will provide a Russian
translation for mappers.</blockquote>
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