[Tagging] Country names

[Pieren]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Andrew Errington <
a.errington at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> Furthermore, the convention that has been adopted is that
> name=* should be the name in Hangul, followed by a space, followed by the
> name in English in parentheses.
>
:

> So, as I see it, names should be rendered as follows


This is exactly a good example of "tagging for the renderers". What OSM
needs is a lot of local contributors. And for them, it is much easier to
enter only one tag for the name and this in the local language. Other
conventions are just workarounds for software issues.

Pieren
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