[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - ogham_stone

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 5:38 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This was not intended to say there were English inscriptions in ogham
> stones or that this tag makes sense in combination, the tag "inscription"
> is well established and will not be introduced by this proposal.
>


> We generally do not store translations in OSM tags, we might tag things in
> different languages (particularly names), but these should be names in
> these languages, not translations of names into these languages.
>

We DO store translations in the name:XX field, for example, for
administrative boundaries.  name:en=Rome, name:it=Roma and so forth.

Is there a general rule of thumb we can employ here to say "in this
category of circumstances, storing translations is appropriate, and in
these other categories, they are not?"
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