[Tagging] Tagging of Country Names

[Andy Townsend]

On 26/10/2016 09:48, Sven Geggus wrote:
> However following this discussion I came to the conclusion that it would
> probably be a good idea to invent an official_language tag as "name" seems to
> be a moving target by its very nature.

An "official_language" tag is certainly something that you can add, but 
I'm not convinced that it'll solve all your problems.  For example, 
where I live in England* there is no "offiicial" language, though there 
is one that's used much more than any other.

I suspect that you need to think about "how do I interpret that data 
that users add to OSM" rather than "how do I bludgeon OSM users into 
adding data in a format that I can easily interpret".  Sometimes the 
world is much more complicated than you'd like it to be :)

Cheers,

Andy

* yes, I really did mean England, and not GB/UK/other enclosing description