[OSM-newbies] Weirs

[Andrew Errington]

On Wed, November 4, 2009 02:05, Johannes Hüsing wrote:
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>> Ah, yes, that would be very helpful:
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>> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=35.687996&mlon=127.923699&zoom=18&l
>> ayers=B000FTF>
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> Hey, Geo-change-up, that's a neat name!
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> I wouldn't have noticed if the name tag didn't have the English along
> with the Korean name. Would this be considered tagging for the renderer?
> I'd expect a localized renderer to look for a name:mylanguage tag and,
> failing that, a name:en tag, but I'd not expect taggers to squeeze a
> parenthesized latin letters version behind every nonlatin name.

I agree, but...

The convention adopted here (and in Japan and other countries) is to have
the name=* tag in the native language followed by English in parentheses:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ko:Map_Features#.ED.91.9C.EA.B8.B0.EB.B2.95

As you can see, we also include name:en and name:ko.  Personally I find it
very useful, as Mapnik renders only the name=* tag, so I see English in
parentheses.  Later, when the renderers are fully internationalised it
won't matter.  With my (English) browser  I will see the name:en tag (if
present) and the name=* tag if not (and actually, that's what JOSM does
right now).  At that time we can programmatically delete the name=* tag
and replace it with the contents of name:<local_lang> tag throughout the
OSM database.

But, for now, about my weirs...

Andrew