[OSM-talk-be] Brussel - Bruxelles

[Chris Browet]

2009/8/3 Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com>

> wannes wrote:
> > 2009/8/3 Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com>
> > > btw, while checking the history of the place node
> > > (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/17401554/history) I've seen
> the
> > > name
> > > has apparently been changed some days ago to include German as well
> (and
> > > Dutch
> > > and French switched place as well), so it's now "Bruxelles - Brussel -
> > > Brüssel". Now I don't exactly see a reason here why German should be
> > > included...
> >
> > Because it's an official language in Belgium? (and we do /not/ want to
> > discriminate anyone :-)  )
> > http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talen_in_Belgi%C3%AB
>
> Yeah, of course I know Belgium has German as official language (hence it's
> name tag is "België - Belgique - Belgien"), but German isn't an official
> language in Brussels.
>
>
Interesting one... I would have indeed intuitively thought the language
usage would be defined by region.
But as there is no "german" region (only community), where is german an
official language (and how is it geographically defined)?
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