[Tagging] International and UN names

[Colin Smale]

> On 03/16/2022 10:22 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Am Mi., 16. März 2022 um 02:48 Uhr schrieb Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com mailto:zelonewolf at gmail.com >:
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> >  There is no way to infer from OSM tagging alone that the "name" tag is in German language.
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> actually there is a "default_language" tag on the Germany relation: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/51477
> I did not dig much further, but the tag is documented and it is used on 283 relations https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:default%20language?uselang=en
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Won't work in multilingual environments. The name tag is often in multiple languages at the same time.

Brian is perfectly right.
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