[OSM-dev] International Labels for Tags

[Claudius]

Am 07.04.2010 10:40, Jens Lehmann:
>
> Hello,
>
> Peter Körner schrieb:
>> Gregory schrieb:
>>> Editors could work in
>>> different languages, so you add a highway=semáforo but the map editor
>>> translates it to highway=traffic_signals before uploading it to OSM.
>> I would discourage such a transformation, because a translation will not
>> be unambiguous in all cases. Also, so. used to the spanish tagging could
>> incorrectly change not-translates tags that get displayed in english to
>> him into spanish, thus changing the data below.
>
> The initial request is just about a translation of tags like highway,
> traffic_signals in different languages such that those labels can be
> displayed in user interfaces.
>
> This page looks interesting, but is probably incomplete:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_finder:Translations
>
> I hoped there would be some structured format or a database table for
> translating tags.

Some are surely to be found in the translatewiki-translation for 
nominatim results. Like here for spanish:

http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&task=view&language=es&group=out-osm-site&offset=404&limit=500

Claudius