[Talk-in] Multilingual name tagging convention in India

I Chengappa imchengappa at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 12:49:58 UTC 2016


It would help greatly if mappers could see names in other languages on a
rendered map. I see that the demo, for instance at
http://openstreetmap.in/demo.html#9.99/13.9372/75.6525 is still just a
demo.

On 5 July 2016 at 07:19, Srravya C <srravya.c at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Found a little more about this topic in a discussion here
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:WikiProject_India#Use_English_for_the_.22name.22_tag>.
> We could put the details about multilingual naming for India in this page
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names>. So that anybody
> referring to this page in the future for naming convention, will get an
> idea about existing conventions followed for India.
>
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Thejesh GN <i at thejeshgn.com> wrote:
>
>> I think the existing convention works really well. Use name tag for latin
>> script and specific language tag for that language names. I think this
>> makes it easy to work and also divide work.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 4, 2016 11:34 PM, "Arun Ganesh" <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Bringing this up since there are recent edits adding multilingual labels
>>> to the `name` tag [1][2].
>>>
>>> The current convention that has been followed is to use `name` for the
>>> local name in latin script. The reasoning if I remember was two fold:
>>> - English being one of the official languages, latin script is widely
>>> used in cities and in public signages in smaller towns. Only in villages it
>>> is uncommon.
>>> - Keeping the tagging convention simple[3], that could be used
>>> throughout the country in a standard way
>>>
>>> Keeping just one name in each tag, we have been able to avoid issues
>>> like the first mapper rule[4] that could cause unnecessary regional
>>> conflicts over ordering of scripts like in Belgium (and they have just two
>>> languages).
>>>
>>> Since we can add the regional names in their own name:lang tag, no data
>>> is ultimately lost, and it is upto the data consumer to choose which
>>> language to support for the user.
>>>
>>> Would be great to hear positives and negatives of this approach and how
>>> it benefits the public Is it time to revise this convention to be more
>>> regional rather than national?
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40472998
>>> [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40479683
>>> [3]
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India#Naming_in_different_scripts_and_languages
>>>
>>> --
>>> Arun Ganesh
>>> @planemad
>>> <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
>>>
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