[Talk-us] Washington DC place node cleanup

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Dec 4, 2020, 12:43 by frederik at remote.org:

> I have often argued for just dropping name:X if it is the name as name,
> because I would assume that every language-specific map or other use
> case would revert to the name tag if no language-specific name was present.
>
> The counter-argument was usually that if Washington has a
> name:de=Washington then you positively know that this is the name used
> in Germany, whereas if it doesn't have a name:de tag it might just be
> "not yet mapped".
>
Also, with explicit language tags you can do fallback to other languages
(as described in detail in other posting).

This way you can do "I prefer name:pl, use name:de otherwise, if neither is
present use name:en, if nothing is available, use name tag".
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