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

[martianfreeloader]

I disagree.

There are many places -- notably bi-/multilingual ones -- where we do 
not leave the decision to the individual mapper. Instead, we have clear 
conventions: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names (see 
e. g. Belgium and especially Brussels for a very detailed convention)

Therefore, I think it would be perfectly in line with current practice 
if the Belorussian community decided for a similar convention.

In fact, the wiki page mentioned above already contains a convention for 
Belarus (currently making Russian the default language), so the proposal 
is essentially about changing this convention.

MF


On 03/09/2022 10:11, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> sent from a phone
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>> On 2 Sep 2022, at 20:53, Paveł Tyślacki <pavel.tyslacki at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> while there have been proposals to tag the default language / the language used in the name tag, afaik it is not something that is typically done. In the tag “name”, we are putting the name that is mostly used, in the local language(s).
> There is no requirement to have all name tags in the same language, it is rather a decision on an individual basis which name is used (for things like place names it is typically the official language/s of the area).
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> Cheers Martin
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