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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 04:29:32PM +0100, Ben Laenen wrote:
> 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...

So go with "België - Belgique - Belgien" and also add the name in the
4 languages?


Kurt