[OSM-talk-be] Brussel - Bruxelles

[Luc Van den Troost]

you can add the other language names with for instance name:fr tag or so. If
there are - or will be - different language versions of the osm rendering,
dunno if there are, they would be marked with the name of the language
specific name, if there is one.

see
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Conventions/Places
and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name

you shouldnt add the other language to the 'default' name however.

Luc / Speedy


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:53 AM, <spam at daxu.be> wrote:

> So the naming of Brussel - Brussels was correct since the Brussel region
> doesn't have language facilities for german speaking people. Otherwise you
> should even adjust the names of Kortrijk (Courtrai), Brugge (Bruges), Gent
> (Ghent), Namur (Namen), ...
>
>
> > Chris Browet wrote:
> >> 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)?
> >
> >
> > It's in the first lines of Belgian Constitution (article 4): translated a
> > bit:
> >
> >
> > "Belgium is divided into four language areas: the Dutch language area,
> the
> > French language are, the bilingual area Brussels-Capital and the German
> > language area.
> >
> > Each municipality belongs to exactly one of these language areas.
> >
> > The boundaries of the four language areas can't be changed or corrected
> > other
> > than by a law, passed by majority of votes in each language group of each
> > Room, on the condition that a majority of the members of each language
> > group
> > is present, and that the total of yes votes in both language groups reach
> > two
> > thirds of all votes."
> >
> >
> > So there you have it: four language areas, and they're geographically
> > defined
> > by the borders of the municipalities in each language area.
> >
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
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