[OSM-dev] Multilingual Maps Overlays

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2010/11/3 Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com>:
> 2. What about names in the local dialect (very important to me)? I'm
> thinkin about 'Barça' for Barcelona, Spain, or 'Züri' which is Swiss
> German for Zurich, Switzerland). How to tag those? => Something like
> 'ch' plus a subdomain?


You should differentiate between a "dialect" and a real language.
While für languages there is name:XX (language code), for dialects you
can use loc_name and alike.

Cheers,
Martin