[Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments

M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Sat Sep 4 20:26:42 BST 2010


2010/9/4 Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de>:
> And AFAIK it's not a good idea to translate every value like you do it here.
> The translations/languages should only apply to names, not on "classes".
> If your Application wants to use different languages than English, it should
> use a dictionary for that at client side.


While this might be true in this case or not (don't speak Swedish)
there are certainly cases in the world where English is missing a
term. So as exception putting a tag in a foreign language (and marking
it as foreign) is not a bad idea.

Cheers,
Martin



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