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

[Sutripta]

Hi,
No doubt it needs to be made consistent. But what that 'consistent' format
is should be given careful thought, and debated. Because it is going to be
there with us for a long time. Let us not jump into its implementation.

Whats happened to GoI's place name gazeteer? We need to regularize our
spellings also.

Regards
Sutripta

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arun Ganesh" <arun.planemad at gmail.com>
To: <talk-in at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 18 January, 2012 18:39
Subject: [Talk-in] Indic place names in [name] tags


> 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,
>
> -- 
> j.mp/ArunGanesh <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
>


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