[Tagging] Slash, space, or spaced hyphen in multi-lingual names

[Paul Allen]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 4:23 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> > On 10. Aug 2018, at 15:29, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 1) It is said to be standard practice to render what is observable on
> the ground.
>
>
> everybody can render what she deems most useful, there is not an absolute
> rule to render what is on the ground (e.g. if there is a typo on a sign,
> you must not put that into ‘name’ if you know and have confirmed it is a
> typo. It could be useful to map the signed name as well, but I wouldn’t use
> the key “name” for it, as that is for the name)
>

You appear to be saying that the name of the street (as on the sign) is not
the name of the street (as in the name=*
tag applying to the street).  This appears to be a post-modernist
interpretation of "name."

What else would the name=* tag, when applied to a way, be the name of?
What is the wording on the street sign
except the name of the street?


> > I don't need to know which languages are spoken in this region, or what
> language(s) the sign is in, that is what the
> > sign SAYS and that is what should be mapped (in my opinion).
>
> thing is, you might want to know in which language the sign is, and there
> is currently no way to find out from our data. If you don’t want to know,
> you are already served ;-)
>

A mapper who doesn't speak English or Welsh (but is familiar with the Roman
alphabet) could, nonetheless,
put the words "Heol Napier Napier Street" into the name=* tag for the way.
This is a straightforward mapping (both
senses of the word) and matches observable reality.  Yes, it would be nice
if they also added "name:cy=Heol Napier"
and "name:en=Napier Street" but that can come later, if at all.  Adding the
language tagging is of *secondary*
importance, a refinement which is nice but not essential.

Yes, the situation is somewhat different when the street has a name but
there is no signage and different arguments can
be made.  And things get really complicated when there is an official name,
a local name, but no signage.   But when
there is a street sign name=* should be used for what is on the sign
because anything else is perverse.

-- 
Paul
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