[Talk-GB] The Welsh for "Brighton"

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Mon Jun 14 07:43:54 UTC 2021


Sadly, it is not sufficient. For example for 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/447325

name:en=Madagascar
would be preferred over
name=Madagasikara

similarly for say Sesel
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/536765

Jun 14, 2021, 09:34 by ian1caldwell+OSM at googlemail.com:

>
>
> Maybe your (1) (2) (3) (4) should be
>   - (1) render names in Polish
>   - (2) if name tag ls in a latin script show name tag
>   - (3) if name tag is not latin script  and there is a latin script language name use that
>   - (4) show name tag
>
> There may be complications in defining what is a latin  script language.
>  
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 at 05:33, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB <> talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> In actual case I tried to
>>
>> - (1) render names in Polish
>> - (2) if Polish name is not present then show English name
>> - (3) try German name
>> - (4) show name tag
>>
>> (2),(3) were present because for city in China
>> English/German name was preferred in readability over what was in name tag.
>>
>> But this resulted in problems where name, name:de was tagged, but name
>> had name in Polish - I was getting German name for cities in Poland.
>>
>>
>>

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