[Tagging] International and UN names

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 3/15/22 21:35, Minh Nguyen wrote:
> There's some redundancy, but redundant name tags are actually preferred 
> in some situations. [3]

> [3] 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/2288660#Repeating_name_with_language_specific_tag 

To be honest I strongly disagree with the sentiment on that page, "In 
cases where multiple languages are tagged for a name, the local-language 
name tag should be duplicated with the language-specific sub-key." - I 
can't believe that represents a consensus.

One of the reasonings given is that "This tagging is important because 
it ensures that data consumers don't need to infer the local language." 
which is silly - data consumers never have to infer the local language 
because the name that is given in the "name" tag *is* name in the local 
language. Conversely, no combination of "name:xx" and "name" tags will 
allow you to infer the local language, because as soon as the name is 
identical in two languages you wouldn't be able to know.

Bye
Frederik

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