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

[Andrew Errington]

I think we should remember that we are not mapping Korea for Koreans, we
are mapping it for everybody.

I have an idea how it should work, which would require some software
support, but remember, we have plenty of time, and the data we are putting
in now might not be usable for some time, until the software is ready.
It's important to have a goal, and be patient that it will take some time
to reach it.

Best wishes,

Andrew

On Mar 5, 2017 7:21 PM, "Yongmin Hong" <lists at revi.pe.kr> wrote:

> 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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