<div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/3 Ben Laenen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benlaenen@gmail.com">benlaenen@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">wannes wrote:<br>
> 2009/8/3 Ben Laenen <<a href="mailto:benlaenen@gmail.com">benlaenen@gmail.com</a>><br>
</div><div class="im">> > btw, while checking the history of the place node<br>
> > (<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/17401554/history" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/17401554/history</a>) I've seen the<br>
> > name<br>
> > has apparently been changed some days ago to include German as well (and<br>
> > Dutch<br>
> > and French switched place as well), so it's now "Bruxelles - Brussel -<br>
> > Brüssel". Now I don't exactly see a reason here why German should be<br>
> > included...<br>
><br>
> Because it's an official language in Belgium? (and we do /not/ want to<br>
> discriminate anyone :-) )<br>
> <a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talen_in_Belgi%C3%AB" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talen_in_Belgi%C3%AB</a><br>
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</div>Yeah, of course I know Belgium has German as official language (hence it's<br>
name tag is "België - Belgique - Belgien"), but German isn't an official<br>
language in Brussels.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Interesting one... I would have indeed intuitively thought the language usage would be defined by region.<br>But as there is no "german" region (only community), where is german an official language (and how is it geographically defined)? <br>