[Tagging] Tagging of Country Names

[Sven Geggus]

Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> As has already been said this _ought_ to be a job for wikidata.

Thus one would need an additional external database to render a proper map!
I don't think that this is the way to go in such a simple case.

Frankly I don't care that much about the proper name tag itself, but I don't
think that there is a single valid argument for tagging an english or french
name in addition to the local one if this langage is not common a particular
country.

The only argument I could think of here ist tagging for the
renderer.  As I already said, such stuff is making it very difficult to
render a proper localized map.

Regards

Sven

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