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<div>Yes, there is much lower value in adding name:en to cases where there is no language<br></div><div dir="auto">specific tag at all.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">To the point that adding it would be a poor idea.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If there is just name=* tag then any label will use it anyway.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Nov 9, 2021, 17:18 by zelonewolf@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div class=""><div>Thanks Mateusz, I went through and did some editing.<br></div><div><br></div><div>One point that jumped out as questionable was the implied repeating of the local-language tag for unremarkable places without translation, so I took that mention out. I assume we don't want to add (for example) a duplicate name:en=* tag to every village, street, and sandwich shop in the country that doesn't have a translation in some other language. The name:local_lang=* is only needed when there's at least two languages tagged.<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">It is already, in fact I added this already as usefulness of this info is quite surprising.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For example it surprised me when I initially implemented this fallback and<br></div><div dir="auto">started getting German names for cities in Poland (typical case of software doing<br></div><div dir="auto">what instructed, not what intended).<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So I am not surprised that it is not known more widely.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Repeating_name_with_language_specific_tag" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Repeating_name_with_language_specific_tag</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Feel free to edit it if something is poorly written there, maybe it should be also qualified<br></div><div dir="auto">that such explicit language tagging is not fully accepted.<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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