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Language is not the same thing as country. There could well be
French-speaking people mapping in England, English in Spain, Spanish
in Egypt, Arabic-speakers in Turkey, Turks in Germany, etc.<br>
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Steve<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/07/2014 00:04, Rob Nickerson
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<div>In my opinion we should try to keep the different
language pages as similar as possible - that is, they should
aim to be just translations of one another. My reason behind
this is that OpenStreetMap is a community and data project.
We need to work together and use common tagging so that
developers can build tools based on OSM data. We should
avoid an OpenStreetMap for people who can speak English, one
for those that can speak French, etc...<br>
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If there is country specific information about a tag then I
would like to be aware of it, as it could be useful for other
countries/languages too. That could be as simple as copying it
to the English[1] language page (marking it as requiring
translation) or if it's longer providing a link on the English
language page.<br>
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<div>Also worth noting that a lot of the translations haven't
stayed up to date. This works both ways - English page
updated, translations not updated, or a non-English page
updated and not copied back to the English page (in any
language). I'd encourage people to copy between the pages even
if they just mark the text as needing translating.<br>
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<div>Regards,<br>
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<div>Rob<br>
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[1] You could also copy it to other language pages, but at a
bare minimum the English page as this is considered the "Main"
page/OSM's default language.<br>
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