[OSM-dev] Migrating osm.org to vectors/Kartotherian

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

In Dutch, in English and other languages based on the Latin alphabet 
/Afghanistan/ is spelled about the same. But for example in Greek it is: 
/Αφγανιστάν/, in Ukrainian: /Афганістан/, in Kazakh: /Ауғанстан/, etc. 
Even though people study foreign languages in school, the absolute 
majority speak, read and write realistically only in a native language. 
The name of the country /Afghanistan /even in Latin letters is not 
understandable to a lot of people.

Certainly, there is a lot of imperfection in a language tagging yet, as 
it has not been that important. But if there is a robust comprehensive 
multilingual map solution similar to say the Gettext for text websites, 
then mappers will pay more attention to this type of tags.

brgds
Oleksiy

On 30.10.2015 13:31, Maarten Deen wrote:
> So you have to have some kind of mechanisme to decide when to show 
> name:en (which I want to see for e.g. Afghanistan) and when to show name.

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