[Tagging] Tagging of Country Names

[Warin]

On 27-Oct-16 06:56 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> Il giorno 26 ott 2016, alle ore 16:52, Dave F 
> <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com <mailto:davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com>> ha 
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>> Isn't that what we have atm & where much of the ambiguity stems from?
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> I don't think so, at least not where Sven wants to change it.
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>> 'official' names appears the correct way to proceed & like others 
>> have suggested, ignore the 'name=' tag.
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> if we go with "official" we will always be on the side of the 
> powerful, and we will completely ignore other aspects. Take the Basque 
> area as example, it is not long ago, that only French and Spanish 
> (according to the side you are looking at) were officially recognized, 
> we would have completely ignored the native Basque population with 
> this rule.
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> Also, if you write "official language", would this include recognized 
> minority languages? Should we have a different tag for this?
> See here for example about the only one "official language" in France 
> and other relevant languages: 
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_France
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Rather than ignore the most frequently used name tag I would try to 
refine it ... at the moment the osmwiki says "the primary tag used for 
naming an element" and then later on "the common default name. (Note: 
For disputed areas, please use the name as displayed on e.g. street 
signs for the name tag. Put all alternatives into either localized name 
tags (e.g. name:tr/name:el) or the variants (e.g. 
loc_name/old_name/alt_name). Thank you.) "



Perhaps "The local, commonly used, name of a feature."

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There are already many variations of the name tag .. including one 
'official'.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name

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