I honestly don't think the English on the street signs is just for tourists. <div><br></div><div>If it is just for Tourists, why do we still see English on signs that are nowhere near any place a typical tourist might go?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think, just my opinion, the Korean government made a decision to create the signs for "residents" of Korea, whether those residents speak Korean, English, Farsi, or Mongolian. Obviously you can't put everything you need on the sign. The two most useful languages in their decision were likely Korean and English.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Your second quote is from the Multilingual names page which handles features that have</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><quote></span></div>
<div>different names in different languages<br><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"></quote></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">If I am correct, this convention was originally developed to deal with problems along the lines of the </span><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:16px">Senkaku / Diaoyu islands.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Here, within Korea, I would suggest that these are not different names. It is the same name written/spoken in a different language, especially since the Hangul characters are not translated to their actual meanings.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">That page also covers transliteration (we currently have a name:ko_rm tag for that).Users in other countries have similar tags, but some have decided, likely for utility's sake, to include two languages in their name tag.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bilingual_street_names#Hong_Kong" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bilingual_street_names#Hong_Kong</a></font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bilingual_street_names#Japan" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bilingual_street_names#Japan</a></font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bilingual_street_names#Haiti" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bilingual_street_names#Haiti</a></font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">If you feel strongly enough that it is in the best interest of the Korean mapping community to use only Hangul on the name tag, then write it up in the Wiki and possibly, eventually, mappers may start to use that tagging system.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">I still stand by the last part of my message, though:</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">> For now, I think it is OK to add the English to the name tag, especially</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">> since the Korean government has decided to add it also. It certainly makes</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">> the map more usable for a wider section of the world</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">></span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">> In the future, when map-display works better for every individual, it won't</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">> be so hard to strip the English from the name tag. A bot could likely do it</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">> more easily and quickly than you or I. When that time comes, I'll be happy</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">> to support the process.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Happy mapping.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Robert</span></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br clear="all">
</font><div><i>"We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to <br>give us meaning. "</i><br>~ unknown<br>---<br></div>
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