[OSM-newbies] avoid repeating the name tag twice

Pierre-André Jacquod pjacquod at alumni.ethz.ch
Fri Mar 6 21:07:09 GMT 2009


Christoph Eckert wrote:

> 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?

not at all and it is also best practice to keep both.

A map (like) Mapnik using only the name= is making a world map having
for each country the local language rendered.

If someone wants to edit / create a map in Hebrew (or language X), then
he would use first all name:he (or name:X) irrespective of the local
language, then where it does not exist name=.. would be used. This would
alow to have all existing names in language X displayed in language X,
independently of the local language.

Best regards
paj





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