[josm-dev] Tabular edit of name tags

[Nicolás Alvarez]

2013/6/26, Hans Schmidt <z0idberg at gmx.de>:
> Am 26.06.2013 17:10, schrieb SomeoneElse:
>> Perhaps because it's not actually the name of the street?
>>
>> This street:
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/52915321
>>
>> has a name in Finnish (which is what everyone uses), and also one in
>> Swedish (Finland is "legally bilingual" to an extent).  It doesn't
>> have an English name (although when staying there it helped me to
>> understand that it meant "South Railway Street"), or a Japanese one,
>> or anything else.  It makes no sense to store names that (a) aren't
>> the name of the place and (b) no-one uses outside of translations from
>> another language, like has happened here:
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/26984580
>>
>> It's just database pollution.
>>
>> (apologies for being somewhat offtopic for the JOSM list)
>
> I don’t understand your reasoning. It *is* the name, only in a different
> writing system.
>
> If you have Vladimir Putin, “Vladimir Putin” is still his name, even
> though nobody in Russia would write him like that. Or what else should
> it be?

Right, but "Vladimir Putin (Владимир Путин)" with the parentheses and
all is *not* his name. That is what people are objecting: putting both
versions of the street name in the name tag just for the sake of
rendering.

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Nicolás