<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 11:49 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us <<a href="mailto:talk-us@openstreetmap.org">talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><br></div><div>Nov 8, 2021, 13:18 by <a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com" target="_blank">zelonewolf@gmail.com</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div dir="ltr"><div>I don't have a problem with the large size of the bounding box, as it is clear from the changeset description what the change is, and it is topically consistent (i.e. - it's not a changeset with a park in New York, an ice cream shop in Albuquerque, and a river in St. Louis!).<br></div><div><br></div><div>I *DO* have a problem with the change itself, as name:en is redundant when the name is already in English. The data consumers that I'm familiar with (namely, OpenMapTiles, and my own service) that are tasked with extracting names in English are perfectly capable of looking for name:en first, and then falling back to name if name:en is not present. So IMO, this is tag bloat. I have added a changeset comment requesting an explanation for the change and will link to this discussion.<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">It is not really redundant as soon as you make a bit more interesting name display.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">if someone would want to display names in English but in case of English name being<br></div><div dir="auto"> unavailable, show German name (which would be preferred over say "京市北")</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's a reasonable use case that I hadn't considered. It does still feel a bit redundant but I can accept that explanation. It is probably worth adding a revision to the name=* wiki page expressing this.</div></div></div>