[OSM-talk-be] Boundaries (was: Sea borders)

[Ben Laenen]

On Sunday 23 November 2008, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 03:48:34PM +0100, Ben Laenen wrote:
> > Final issue: what should the name tag be for Belgium? Just the
> > English "Belgium", or "België - Belgique - Belgien"? In Germany
> > they chose the German name, in the Netherlands the English.
>
> Can't we do something like:
> name=Belgium
> name:nl=België
> name:fr=Belgique
> name:de=Belgien

That's how I did it now. But in Brussels we have also "French - Dutch" 
or "Dutch - French" for everything, and an unwritten rule in OSM is 
that the local languages and scripts are used for the name tag...

Ben