<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv1598116339"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" id="yiv1598116339bodyDrftID" class="yiv1598116339"><tbody><tr><td id="yiv1598116339drftMsgContent" style="font:inherit;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I would like to support the idea of name:gd=***** for Gaelic names. </div><div><br></div><div>In Portree there are definitely two names in OS Locator for several roads</div><div><br></div><div>an example is </div><div><br></div><div><span class="yiv1598116339Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;line-height:14px;"><ul><li><b>highway</b>: residential</li><li><b>name</b>: Mill Park</li><li><b>name:gd</b>: Pairc na Muilne</li><li><b>source</b>:
OS_OpenData_StreetView</li></ul></span><div><br></div><div>at</div><div><br></div><div>http://oscompare.raggedred.net/?zoom=18&lat=57.4161&lon=-6.19&layers=B0TF</div><div><br></div><div>If there has not been an official vote on this type of tag then maybe a decision should be made because it will affect a
lot of people making international language maps.</div><div><br></div><div>for example</div><div><br></div><div>http://osmalba.org/</div><div><br></div><div>I would be willing to help with some wiki work if needed to set up voting though I think a straight decision would be a lot easier.</div><div><br></div><div>Nice work on the new OSM Analysis by the way. Any chance of totals in the table analysis page. It would give us a type of countdown clock for the uk</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>--- On <b>Thu, 20/1/11, Craig Wallace <i><craigw84@fastmail.fm></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><br>From: Craig Wallace <craigw84@fastmail.fm><br>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis name tags<br>To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org<br>Date: Thursday, 20 January, 2011,
17:44<br><br><div class="yiv1598116339plainMail">On 20/01/2011 17:28, Peter Miller wrote:<br>> <br>> On 20 January 2011 17:20, Tom Chance <<a rel="nofollow">tom@acrewoods.net</a><br>> <mailto:<a rel="nofollow">tom@acrewoods.net</a>>> wrote:<br>> <br>> How about dialects?<br>> <br>> name:en<br>> name:cy<br>> name:gd<br>> name:gv<br>> name:sco<br>> name:ga<br>> <br>> Whatever other regional languages we have.<br>> <br>> <br>> we believe that the OS Locator content is always in English. In the<br>> Western Isles the name field for roads in OSM often holds the Gaelic<br>> version with the English
in en:name hence our support for that tag. Do<br>> tell me if I am wrong on that.<br><br>The OS Locator data does have Gaelic names in some places.<br>See for example Portree: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://oscompare.raggedred.net/?zoom=15&lat=57.41533&lon=-6.20179&layers=B0TF">http://oscompare.raggedred.net/?zoom=15&lat=57.41533&lon=-6.20179&layers=B0TF</a><br>Also some parts of Stornoway: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://oscompare.raggedred.net/?zoom=15&lat=58.21523&lon=-6.37094&layers=B0TF">http://oscompare.raggedred.net/?zoom=15&lat=58.21523&lon=-6.37094&layers=B0TF</a><br><br>Though it is inconsistent, with English names for some roads, Gaelic names for others. I have also noticed a few places where it seems to have both languages, so it has a separate box for each.<br>For Stornoway, the Gaelic names are in the name= tag, with name:en for English.<br>But for Portree it
is mostly the English name in
the name= tag, with name:gd for the Gaelic names. Its debatable which one should be considered the 'primary' name there.<br><br>Craig<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-GB mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></table><br>