[Tagging] Country names

[Noel David Torres Taño]

On Jueves 14 Octubre 2010 16:05:58 Peter Körner escribió:
> Am 14.10.2010 16:42, schrieb Craig Wallace:
> > On 14/10/2010 14:51, Peter Körner wrote:
> >> To render a German map there are two possibilities:
> >> 1. render "name:de" if it exists, "name" otherwise
> >> 2. render "name" if its identical to "name:de", "name (name:de)"
> >> otherwise
> >> 
> >> "name" does hereby refer to the local name ((how do the people that live
> >> there call their country).
> > 
> > But what if you want to render a map with only German names, no other
> > (local) languages?
> 
> That's version 1. If I don't have a name:de then name is the best guess.
> No Problem here.
> 
> Peter
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That all is quite good for places with only one roman-script name. But I'm 
thinking in this case:

name:es=Cataluña (This is the name in Spain's official language, which is 
official there since Catalonia is part of Spain)
name:ca=Catalunya (This is the official name, it is in local language)
name:en=Catalonia (This is the name in OSM's official language)

How to tag name=* for that? How to render?

An it can become more complicated, as in Basque Country most places have both 
spanish and basque names as official:

name:es=Vitoria (=name:en)
name:eu=Gasteiz

official name: Vitoria/Gasteiz

and some places where both names are the same (like Barakaldo) so official 
name is obviously not Barakaldo/Barakaldo

or, just with one local and official name, but different names for people 
which use that map a lot, like british and german tourists in Canary Islands:

name:es=Islas Canarias
name:en=Canary Islands
name:de=Canarische Inseln


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