[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - migration to use belarusian as default language in Belarus for tagging

[Paveł Tyślacki]

Yep, in short, for names and similar tag values are used more Russian
language now, but a majority of signs are on Belarusian and a lot of
mappers in internal chat vote for Belaurusian language usage.

This proposal described:

* New rule and migration plan: use belarusian as default language for
toponims and some other categories (that in most cases meet ground truth
rule), use ground truth for POI
* History of usage of languages in name and attempts to change it.
* Monitoring and migration tools were prepared for migration.
* Examples of how data will be changed if new rule will be applied (OSC
file, updated pbf, mbtiles).
* Coverage of name:be and name:ru for different categories: for example
toponims ~99% both languages
* Examples of different categories: place, highway, water, waterway,
public_transport, amenity
* Explanation what changed for end used: search will be same, if rendering
support multi languages, then nothing will change, otherwise it will show
belarusian as default
* And vote itself

It's a bit sensitive topic what language to use, this is the reason the
proposal approach was decided to follow, to finalize convention for country
and try to avoid conflicts in changes.

Pavel

On Fri, 2 Sept 2022 at 14:48, Marc_marc <marc_marc at mailo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Le 01.09.22 à 23:02, Paveł Tyślacki a écrit :
> >
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Be:Belarus_language_issues/Migration_proposal
>
> summary found using a translator :
> this country want to change the default langue from russian
> to Belarus due to more and more sign in Belarus
>
> that a idea to take the same condition for active mapper
> than the osm one
> but i didn't understand why it's a "feature proposal"
> it's more a vote about a convention for this country
> and then a mechanical edit with its own rule
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
>
>
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