[Talk-GB] The Welsh for "Brighton"

Ian Caldwell ian1caldwell+OSM at googlemail.com
Mon Jun 14 08:01:32 UTC 2021


But both of them have a name:pl so that's what would be used.

Ian


On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 at 08:47, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB <
talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> 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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