[josm-dev] Tabular edit of name tags

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

On 26/giu/2013, at 14:49, Hans Schmidt <z0idberg at gmx.de> wrote:

> This can be done for every single street. I am not even talking about
> Arabic, Hebraic or Hindi transcriptions. They would like to have the map
> readable as well, don’t they?
> This is also e.g. necessary in Germany, if you want to have the maps in
> Cyrillic: You would have to transcribe every street, every town, every
> school into Cyrillic.


don't confuse transcriptions with having a proper name. AFAIK the transcriptions can be done automatically, but if not there should be another tag then name:en to store them. If they are signposted like in your Taiwanese example the situation is obviously different.

cheers,
Martin