[OSM-newbies] avoid repeating the name tag twice

Christoph Eckert ce at christeck.de
Fri Mar 6 18:40:06 GMT 2009


Hi,

> In Israel we try to tag all names with "name","name:he","name:en", and we
> put the same value in "name" and "name:he".
> For example:
>   name=1234
>   name:he=1234
>   name:en=abcd

if he is the default language, why then use lang:he at all? Usually, we just 
use name and omit name:default_lang completely, don't we?

HTH,

ce




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