[Tagging] International and UN names

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 04:03 2022-03-17, Martin Koppenhoefer đã viết:
> The pronunciation tags are probably quite interesting when typical rules 
> for the language would lead to wrong results, but these are just a few 
> edge cases and should not make us encourage putting pronunciation tags 
> everywhere.

We're in agreement that pronunciation tags shouldn't be applied 
liberally. This is actually a significant difference from some 
proprietary map vendors that do attempt to generate comprehensive 
pronunciation layers. But given advances in consumer-grade TTS 
technology in the last decade, I don't think it's necessary to pursue 
coverage beyond edge cases where we expect that a lack of context would 
be problematic. (There sure are a lot of edge cases in U.S. place and 
street names, though!)

> Explicitly specifying the language of the name per object is strange for 
> POIs, usually there is just one name used for all languages (maybe I’m 
> too shortsighted here, there will be some exceptions), commonly when 
> there are several scripts involved, eg a latin brand in somewhere else, 
> they would use a transcription which sounds similar to the native name 
> (save some cases where it would be deemed to sound bad, or even be 
> insulting). For example the “Le Bistrot” is clearly French, but it’s the 
> Italian name as well, there is no other Italian name.

Localized names are definitely less important and more bewildering for 
shops and eateries in general. To reiterate, redundant name:* tagging 
would only be relevant when a feature has a different name depending on 
the language. That probably already excludes over 99.99% of shops out 
there. It's more important for multilingual regions and neighborhoods, 
world-class cities, and countries, which were the original topic of this 
thread.

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minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us