[OSM-dev] Multilingual Maps Overlays

[Pieren]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> name=Strasbourg
> name:de=Straßburg
> name:gsw=Schdroosburi
>
> Is this example correct (especially "name:gsw=Schdroosburi")?
>
>
Yes and no. "gsw" is an iso code grouping all alemannic german dialects
around the three countries Germany, Switzerland and France borders. But they
are so many differences between them that we prefere to use "loc_name"
instead of this ISO code. In your example, loc_name would be "Stroosburi".

Pieren
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