[Talk-GB] The Welsh for "Brighton"

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Yes, in this case - but if this tag would be missing...

(I was not looking for case without name:pl in data  - especially as I would
add missing name:pl if I would find one)


Jun 14, 2021, 10:01 by ian1caldwell+OSM at googlemail.com:

>
> 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 <mailto:ian1caldwell%2BOSM 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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