[Talk-ko] Fixing laguage-mixed name tag in Korean region

[Yongmin Hong]

Again, the problem is the software rendering the map data, not the data
itself. We can agree that Republic of Korea does not use English as an
official languages, so let's continue here. The global OSM community's
consensus seem to be using the official language of the given location (for
example, in New Zealand, where their official language is both English
and Māori, it makes sense to have both languages in the `name` tag. Same
for Hong Kong.).[1] But this is not the case for Korea. Korea does not
recognize English as the official languages. As such, we should be using
Korean as a main `name` tag, imo. `name` should point to authoritative name
of a given location, and usually English is not the official name of a
given location in Korea.

Openstreetmap Wiki ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names ) says...

The common default name. (Note: For disputed areas, please use the name as
displayed on, e.g., street signs for the name tag. Put all alternatives
into either localized name tags (e.g., name:tr/name:el) or the variants
(e.g., loc_name/old_name/alt_name). Thank you.)


[1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names

If you want to change this behavior, you will have to get a consensus on a
global level.

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2017. 3. 5. 17:00 최규성 <kyusung.choi at gmail.com> 작성:

As a result, it is against the idea of Yongmin. If OSM was designed only
for Koreans and by Koreans, it would have been agreeable. But, as many of
us would agree, OSM is designed as a global map for everyone in the world.
The map of Italy region is also lack of something. The Korean who can't
understand Italian (like me) becomes illiterate when I see it, which needs
to be improved. In this regard, I evaluate that OSM labeling style for
Korea region is more advanced than that for Italy.
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