[Tagging] Homogenize diplomatic names - RFC

[Warin]

On 2/2/22 11:28, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
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> On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 05:20, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging 
> <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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>     different names are used all over the globe, e.g."Embassy of the
>     United States of America", "Embassy of USA", "Embassy of United
>     States".
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Abbreviated name should go in short_name, for example short-name=USA Embassy

And local names in local_name=*

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> I believe the official term is "Embassy of the United States of 
> America", & the others are really just different ways of naming the 
> same thing. I would think that "The Embassy" is "The Embassy" 
> everywhere? (allowing for translation into other languages of course)
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>     If commonly used local names in Australia/UK/New Zealand differ
>     then name tag should also differ.
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> Nup, they're Embassies here as well, except, of course, for the High 
> Commissions of other Commonwealth countries! Which I know sort of 
> negates what I just said, but High Commissions are still tagged in OSM 
> as Embassies eg https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/136580733
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> But on that, I just noticed 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/136583151. Shouldn't the primary 
> name usually be shown in the local language ie en, with it's "home" 
> language being an alt_name/s, in this case name:de, fr & nl (or should 
> that be "be"?)?
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Yes the 'name' tag should be in the local language.

Looks to have been changed some 3 years ago by a Belgian, who has done a 
few more elsewhere in the world.
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