[Talk-GB] Multilingual street names

[Mark Goodge]

On 19/03/2024 14:50, Ben Proctor wrote:
> This has been the subject of some heated debate and the Wiki entry 
> reflects where the debate got to last time 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names#Wales 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names#Wales>
> 
> Basically this agrees with you.
> 
> The name: tag should have the name used in Welsh or the name used in 
> English but not both.

Thanks.

FWIW, both OS OpenNames (widely used open data) and the NSG (not open, 
but canonical) put the English and Welsh names into separate fields. So 
it makes sense for OSM to follow the same convention.

Mark