[OSM-talk-ie] Proposed automated edit for automatic irish translation

[Rory McCann]

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Hi gang,

I've an idea for a potential automated edit for Ireland. And in keeping
with good OSM practice, I'm opening it up for discussion before I make
any changes.

Basically there are some streets with and Irish and English name (ie
name and name:ga tags) and some street with only an English name (ie
name tag only). Most of the time the Irish translation for a street name
 depends on the English name, so if there is a street called X in
English and Y in Irish, then it's most likely that another street in
another town called X would also be called Y in Irish.

I've written a programme that goes through an osm file and figures out
these missing names. I've found about 500 ways that can have an irish
name added to them.

If there are 2 ways with the same english name and different irish names
then that english name is not used for translating. This is a protection
against english names that can have more than one translation.

Any comments?

Rory
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