[Tagging] Tagging of Country Names

[Warin]

On 26-Oct-16 08:52 AM, Michael Reichert wrote:
> Hi Warin,
>
> Am 25.10.2016 um 23:32 schrieb Warin:
>> ? You are not proposing removing all the English names from the data base?!
> No, he doesn't.
>
> He just proposes to remove the English name from the name=* tag in
> countries where English is neither an official language nor a common
> (but non-official) language.

Good.

>   name:en=*, int_name=* etc. will be left
> untouched.
>
>> How they are used (rendered) is your issue.
> Sometimes the developers of rendering styles discover errors in our
> data. That's what happened with Sven who develops a German branch of OSM
> Carto which does a phonetic transcription of non-Latin scripts into Latin.
>

>
> PS I agree with Sven's proposal as long as he acts carefully.

As I now understand his idea, I too would encourage the action.

Would any transcription be placed into name:la=* (la is the language code for Latin)?

There will be some 'particularities' as always. In Australia there is at least one instance of name:aus where the local indigenous language (non english, but latin script) has been used. Here the official language is English so the name= should be used for rendering .. possibly with the name:aus rendered in brackets, except where they are equal .. then it might be rendered with the name= tag and the name:en rendered in brackets ... {Included for complexity that may not have been considered}.