[Tagging] foreign names for stuff, was: "Mörthe und Mosel"

[Alexander Kane]

I've been pondering whether to add name:en to European train stations when
the English announcement is usually translated. For example Cologne South
for the train station Köln Süd.

Alex

Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> schrieb am Fr.,
6. Jan. 2023, 04:27:

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> Jan 5, 2023, 17:36 by frederik at remote.org:
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> Hi,
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> On 1/5/23 11:00, Anne- Karoline Distel wrote:
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> I personally found old, yet now maybe offensive names on OpenStreetMap
> very useful
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> Yes, this is something people occasionally quote as a reason for keeping
> old street names as well - genealogy and other historic research. Such
> names should always be in an old_name tag though, to avoid a multi-lingual
> map showing them prominently.
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> sometimes with language suffix, like old_name:de
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/old_name%3Ade#values
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