[Talk-in] Indic place names in [name] tags

[Emilie Laffray]

Hello,

most people have been using the following convention:

[name] => Native language
[name:en] => Latin character
[name:hi] => Local name

Nominatim is capable of searching a name whatever the namespace is. Also,
the Japanese have been also using tags like [name:jp_romaji] for latin
transcript.
I believe that the map should be usable for the people who are living in
the area not for the "tourists".

Emilie Laffray

On 18 January 2012 13:09, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been trying to render maps from the osm data and the multilingual
> place names in the [name] tags has been an issue. There are all sorts of
> formats: [<latin>], [<latin> <local>], [<local> <latin>], [<latin>
> (<local>)], [<local> (<latin>)], [<local>].
>
> I feel for the sake of consistency, only the latin name be entered into
> the [name] tag, and the local language one in the [name:hi] or similar tag
> with the two letter language code. Otherwise the inconsistent name tags is
> just going to make processing the data cumbersome. I'm going to move the
> local names into the name: subtags, let me know if anyone has an issue with
> that. No data is going to be lost, only that the default osm tiles will
> only show the latin names. But then again its time we set up india tile
> servers for indian languages so that localization can be carried out in a
> more consistent manner.
> cheers,
>
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