[HOT] Multilingual names tool for OpenStreetMap

[Nicholas Doiron]

OpenStreetMap is fortunate to have a large, multilingual community. We
store a "name" tag for local names (sometimes two scripts are used, as in
Morocco) and we use "name:en" and other tags to store names from other
languages.

In many parts of OpenStreetMap, we have places labeled English-first, or
local placenames without alternate names (eg China).  I hesitate to call
this a *problem *for OSM/HOT, but it could be an interest for expanding
OSM's reach and involving partners.

Today I set up a prototype on http://city-namer.herokuapp.com/ - it uses
Overpass to pick places with a name but no name:[lang] tag.  States,
districts, and cities are sorted to appear before neighborhoods and hamlets.
Currently this doesn't edit anything... it dumps into a database. But if
you're interested in making this into a crowd-naming project, please
contact me or glom onto the GitHub https://github.com/Georeactor/city-namer

Regards,
Nick Doiron
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