[Tagging] Names localization

[Claudius Henrichs]

Am 25.04.2010 11:25, Alexander Sidorov:
> Hello!
>
> Is there any way to implement the following localization strategy:
> 1. display russian (russian is just for example) name if it exists
> 2. display english name if russian name doesn't exists
> 3. display local name otherwise
>
> The problem for me is to determine which language is used for some 
> region by default. I have found this discussion 
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Language_of_this_element> 
> but without solution.
There's currently no way to determine what language the "name"-tag is in.

Your question doesn't seem to be a tagging one though, because as I 
understand you want to have different rendered outputs, correct?
Like John Smith explained this has to be done with some clever JOIN SQL 
statements.

Some further readings here [1] and an example of a rendering of the 
world map in different languages here [2].

Claudius

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Internationalization
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