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I too agree with keeping the current convention of name tags for
multilingual names. Belgium has just two languages and in context of
our regional languages, first mapper rule can create conflicts as
Arun indicated previously. Perhaps we should try to improve the
current state of multilingual names in India -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/search?q=name%3A">http://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/search?q=name%3A</a><br>
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cheers,<br>
yogi<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/05/2016 06:19 PM, I Chengappa
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<div dir="ltr">It would help greatly if mappers could see names in
other languages on a rendered map. I see that the demo, for
instance at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://openstreetmap.in/demo.html#9.99/13.9372/75.6525">http://openstreetmap.in/demo.html#9.99/13.9372/75.6525</a>
is still just a demo. <br>
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Found a little more about this topic in a discussion <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:WikiProject_India#Use_English_for_the_.22name.22_tag"
target="_blank">here</a>. We could put the details about
multilingual naming for India in <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names"
target="_blank">this page</a>. So that anybody referring
to this page in the future for naming convention, will get
an idea about existing conventions followed for India.
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<p dir="ltr">I think the existing convention
works really well. Use name tag for latin
script and specific language tag for that
language names. I think this makes it easy
to work and also divide work.</p>
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<div>On Jul 4, 2016 11:34 PM, "Arun
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<div dir="ltr">Bringing this up since
there are recent edits adding
multilingual labels to the `name`
tag [1][2].
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<div>The current convention that has
been followed is to use `name` for
the local name in latin script.
The reasoning if I remember was
two fold:</div>
<div>- English being one of the
official languages, latin script
is widely used in cities and in
public signages in smaller towns.
Only in villages it is uncommon.</div>
<div>- Keeping the tagging
convention simple[3], that could
be used throughout the country in
a standard way</div>
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<div>Keeping just one name in each
tag, we have been able to avoid
issues like the first mapper
rule[4] that could cause
unnecessary regional conflicts
over ordering of scripts like in
Belgium (and they have just two
languages).</div>
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<div>Since we can add the regional
names in their own name:lang tag,
no data is ultimately lost, and it
is upto the data consumer to
choose which language to support
for the user.</div>
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<div>Would be great to hear
positives and negatives of this
approach and how it benefits the
public Is it time to revise this
convention to be more regional
rather than national?</div>
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<div>[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40472998" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40472998</a></div>
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href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40479683" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40479683</a></div>
<div>[3] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India#Naming_in_different_scripts_and_languages"
target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India#Naming_in_different_scripts_and_languages</a><br
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