[OSM-talk-ie] name=Ireland | Re: name=Éire / Ireland

Karl Newsletters kagyjunk at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 11:39:48 UTC 2020


Article 4 of the Constitution of Ireland, gives the state its two official
names, Éire in Irish and Ireland in English. Each name is a direct
translation of the other. From 1937, the name Éire was often used even in
the English language.

copy from wikipedia, so usual precautions apply


On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 12:05, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:

> I think `name=Ireland` is best. For `name`, the most commonly used name
> in the place for the thing is what it should be. And, whatever one
> things /should be/ the most common name, I think we can all agree that
> what /is/ the most common name is “Ireland”.
>
> `int_name` is a silly tag. I haven't heard of a good definition of that
> aside from “Name of the country in English”, which wronly prioritises
> English. Why not `int_name=جزيرة أيرلندا`?
>
> On 07/06/2020 16:24, Neil O'Byrne wrote:
> > The Irish euro coins just have Éire.  So maybe name=Éire and
> int_name=Ireland
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Colm Moore [mailto:colmmoore72 at hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Sunday 7 June 2020 14:56
> > To: talk-ie at openstreetmap.org
> > Subject: [OSM-talk-ie] name=Éire / Ireland
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/62273
> >
> > Someone has set the name of the (Republic of) Ireland to "Éire /
> Ireland". Whatever about Irish constitutional nuances, OSM usually uses one
> field=one piece of data. I'm inclined to change it to name=Ireland, given
> that Ireland is the name that most people use.
> >
> > Separately, there is the matter of lots of the international
> translations are of "Republic of Ireland" instead of "Ireland". Does anyone
> have thoughts on how to deal with potential grammatical issues in
> rationalising these?
> >
> > Colm
> >
> >
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