[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

Stefan de Konink stefan at konink.de
Wed Jan 28 00:18:53 GMT 2009


Simon Ward wrote:
>> I think that leaves us with an unoptimal situation where editors
>> either have to shove things into the same key delimited by some token
>> like ";" as is currently recommended but AFAIK not supported by any
>> renderer (or any tool?), or to put what's logically the same data
>> under different keys.
> 
> Is using different keys (when they’re likely to be unknown to the
> renderers) or multiple tags with the same key name any better supported
> in the renderers?

The most logical way of tagging is still using the xml namespace idea. 
name:en,name:nl etc. This is used for the different Dutch layers and is 
clean. If someone wants to render his own map he will prioritize the 
name:whatever over name, and creates his fancy map.


Stefan




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