Hi Guys,<div><br></div><div>Was there an agreed answer to this issue.</div><div><br></div><div>I want to tag an address in Kyiv using both the English and Ukrainian street names. š</div><div><br></div><div>Sounds like I can do:</div>
<div><br></div><div>addr:street:en:Tereschenkivska Street</div><div><br></div><div>and</div><div><br></div><div>addr:street:ua:ôÅÒÅÝÎ˦¦×ÓØËÁ</div><div><br></div><div>Is this best practice?š</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Ben Laenen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benlaenen@gmail.com">benlaenen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sunday 15 March 2009, Tal wrote:<br>
> name:local_lang="fr - nl" is indeed an interesting idea, that I<br>
> haven't thought of.<br>
> However, I ask myself if it's flexible enough.<br>
> It seems that for just a little more coding you get the much more<br>
> flexible "{name:fr} - {name:nl}" (with special escape combinations<br>
> \\, \{, \} š).<br>
><br>
> I think that mappers from Brussels and also other parts of the word<br>
> with strings comprised from two languages should add there insights.<br>
> Do they care about this problem? Are they willing to use such a<br>
> solution?<br>
<br>
</div>Only if it's actually rendering both names, and only if it applies to an<br>
area that automatically adds the "local_lang=fr;nl" tag to all objects<br>
inside its boundaries (it's just a bad idea to tag every object with<br>
what it's local language is, you can override with a tag on the object<br>
itself if it's different).<br>
<br>
I wouldn't do "local_lang=fr - nl" as the separator can always vary for<br>
the same object (you could have a dash, or a newline or just a space, a<br>
slash or a bullet or whatever), depending on what the person making the<br>
maps likes most.<br>
<br>
But given the complexity of handling boundaries to add tags to the<br>
objects I think we'll be doing "name=Dutch name - French<br>
name", "name:nl=Dutch name", "name:fr=French name" in Brussels for a<br>
long time to come.<br>
<br>
Greetings<br>
<font color="#888888">Ben<br>
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