[Talk-us] Washington DC place node cleanup

[Mateusz Konieczny]

name:pl tag is fortunately correct


Dec 4, 2020, 12:33 by mikel.maron at gmail.com:

> Hi
>
> In DC, we just say DC usually. Across the states, it's Washington DC to distinguish from Washington state.
>
> I'm not sure what the "name" tag should be, but I am wondering what the point of the translations are which simply duplicate the default name. Is it like a marker to say "don't try calling this place anything else"? Is that common, seems unneccesary?
>

It may be useful. For example lets say that I want to display names with labels
in Polish, with English labels as fallback.

After all, some location in China or Japan may have specified name:en, but not name:pl

So name:pl value would be taken as the first one, name:en if name:pl is missing
and name tag if both are missing.

But what happens when some object has Polish name[1], tagged in name and different
name tagged in name:en?

Then name:en would be displayed, what would be avoided if name tag would be repeated
in name:pl tag.


[1](maybe because it is city in Poland,
maybe because it is shop in USA selling primarily to Polish-speaking people, maybe
it is a school for children of emigrants....)



(this is based on actual project, both from my own experience and someone else from Poland
run independently in the same issue)

PS: No, region-based rules are not working fully even for languages that are nearly completely
dominating in a given region and are nearly not present elsewhere, due to "nearly" part.
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