[OSM-talk-be] Multilingual names

[Glenn Plas]

Hey Marc,

> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Gplv2 on the discussion
> tab. Didn't you get a mail for that ?

oh .. I see , that probably goes to my google mail address, a bit of a
trashbin-mail account with massive amounts of spam hiding real messages,
I only check that sporadically

> 
> As for the French-Dutch. I think I added a name once to a path in
> Zonienwoud, in the other order. Can't find it right now. Perhaps
> someone corrected my vandalism :-)

The tool I made would pick that up and flag it, I only corrected about
3% (99%-96%).  It just made sense to further unify the data that way and
match the wiki page, didn't give it much thought hence failed to raise
this issue to the list.

I believe it's better this way as the former rule seemed to be a
political motivated one, and that has no place in OSM.  We should
refrain from making those types of decisions.

Like you, I don't care french is first , dutch is second, as long as it
is done consistently.  It makes the map look good.

In that regard, I am desperately looking for a quality resource on
street names in BXL, and I need one that is written exactly how it
should be written.

I used a document that was very complete but I failed to understand the
spelling rules in french language (I was always taught that capitals
aren't accented but apparently there are notable exceptions, one of them
applies to streetnames).

I was educated on the subject by Yves (bxl-forever).  I stopped my edits
at once and still need to roll back some of those accent problems, but I
need a street list first, when I have one, I can incorporate it in the
tool, that would be an awesome feature to have.

Sorry for not being more forthcoming on this, I didn't expect this
impact on us.

That Q/A tool would help you find the problem if it exists, I downloaded
zonienwoud to an osm file but it seems that a packages I use (medoo) has
been broken since I last used it.  I have to fix the source code first.

Glenn