[Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments

Pierre-Alain Dorange pdorange at mac.com
Sun Sep 5 10:27:58 BST 2010


M?rtin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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.

Yes you're right there is some regional exception for specific things.
But the general rule is to use only one tag class for a definied thing.

tag class has not to be translated, but specific tag class name should
not be always in english for some regional specific features.

-- 
Pierre-Alain Dorange




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