[Tagging] name of river/admin area

[Michael Krämer]

Hi,

Am 04.09.2012 03:22 schrieb "André Pirard" <A_Pirard at hotmail.com>:
> I think that names should be spelled the way people speak them so that
the map reader can speak them too.
> "le Wachiboux" (masculine) but "la Semois" and "la Meuse" (feminine).
Well, this might depend on the local language. In German it's the same that
rivers are either male or female ("der Rhein"/"die Donau"). But I would
definetly not include this information in the name. In a map it should only
read the name of the river itself.

BTW, regarding the original question whether to include "river": I couldn't
think of an example in German where this would apply. So I think I would
tend not to include it globally.

Michael
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