[Talk-ko] Romanisation: a solution

[Lukas Sommer]

Makes sense!

(I’m not sure about lowercase. I would rather opt for ko-Latn because
also also sr-Latn uses titlecase.)
Lukas Sommer


2017-10-26 3:06 GMT+00:00 Maarten van den Hoven <mrvdhoven at gmail.com>:
> Dear OSM editors,
>
>
> This email proposes a solution to the Korean and Japanese romanisation
> tagging issue. Since this topic concerns both Korea and Japan it is sent to
> their respective mailing lists.
>
> The tag for romanised korean is currently "name:ko_rm". However, this is not
> the international standard. "ko_rm" was most likely chosen a long time ago
> because people at the time were unformiliar with the global standard as seen
> here (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Korea_Naming_Convention). The
> global standard as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force here
> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47) and backed by W3C, Unicode, ECMA is
> "ko-Latn" instead of "ko_rm". Adopting a global standard solves confusion
> over the use of the tag
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names#Korea).
>
> This talk has been going on for the past years as seen by the above links
> and this one ->
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.region.ko/204
> However, I was unable to find arguments in defense of the "ko_rm" tag.
>
> Therefore, I suggest an edit of the OSM database (following the official
> procedure as defined here
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct) of
> changing all "name:ko_rm" tags to "name:ko-Latn", like Serbia did in the
> past as well (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names#Serbia).
>
> Before this change is pushed it is of course important to see if anyone has
> objections or other reasons why the "ko_rm" tag was chosen over the
> "ko-Latn" tag.
>
> We encourage editors in Korea to join the OSM Korea Telegram chat group here
> https://telegram.me/osmKorea.
>
> Kind regards.
>
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