[Tagging] Tagging of Country Names

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> Il giorno 25 ott 2016, alle ore 17:02, Sven Geggus <lists at fuchsschwanzdomain.de> ha scritto:
> 
> So I propose a correction of all country names to names into official langages of
> the respective countries only and to remove all english names.


btw, this is not limited to country names, the same issues occur on sub-country level as well, see e.g. Südtirol for a similar problem: 
https://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html (sorry, permalink seems broken on mobile).

IMHO we would have to generally change how we tag names, because we don't have a solution for multilingual regions, just workarounds ;-)

cheers,
Martin 
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