[Talk-ko] Naming conventions in Korea

[Andrew Errington]

I have no real objection to the change, but I must point out that having 
Korean and English in the name=* tag has been extremely useful to me as a 
visitor to Korea.  Other maps show only Korean.  What I would like to see is 
an international version of the map which shows Korean and English for each 
object (street, shop, park, whatever) made from "name:ko (name:en)".  There 
have been some experiments for this in the past, so maybe it will happen in 
the future.

I am glad there has been some dialog on this.  I wrote the wiki pages 
describing the naming convention in detail, but the original convention was 
chosen long ago based on the same decision made in Japan.  Recently Japan has 
moved away from using Japanese and English in the name=* tag.  Again, this is 
disappointing as the map is useful to me this way, however, hopefully similar 
functionality can be introduced in the future.

I would recommend adding to the Wiki a note about name:ja and name:zh for 
Japanese and Chinese name tags too.  I think ja and zh are the correct 
language codes.

Best wishes,

Andrew


On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 23:14:26 Max wrote:
> There has been nobody coming forward with objections to change the
> naming convention. Please do so if you feel that this is going to be
> too fast or not in the right direction.
> 
> Do you disagree with the following for the wiki?
> 
> ----
> 
> Korean is the only official language in Korea. Korean is written in
> Hangeul. Street signs often incorporate romanized or translated
> versions of names. Most often they are in English, but Chinese and
> Japanese can also be found. The romanization should follow the Revised
> Romanization of Korean for South Korea, and the McCune–Reischauer
> romanization for North Korea.
> 
> name= Name in Hangeul
> name:ko= Name in Hangeul
> name:en= Translation if available, otherwise romanized
> name:ko_rm= romanized
> 
> Example
> name=경부고속도로
> name:ko=경부고속도로
> name:en=Gyeongbu Expressway
> name:ko_rm=Gyeongbugosokdoro
> 
> ----
> 
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