[Talk-us] Change sets covering entire US?

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 11:49 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us <
talk-us at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

>
> Nov 8, 2021, 13:18 by zelonewolf at gmail.com:
>
> I don't have a problem with the large size of the bounding box, as it is
> clear from the changeset description what the change is, and it is
> topically consistent (i.e. - it's not a changeset with a park in New York,
> an ice cream shop in Albuquerque, and a river in St. Louis!).
>
> I *DO* have a problem with the change itself, as name:en is redundant when
> the name is already in English.  The data consumers that I'm familiar with
> (namely, OpenMapTiles, and my own service) that are tasked with extracting
> names in English are perfectly capable of looking for name:en first, and
> then falling back to name if name:en is not present.  So IMO, this is tag
> bloat.  I have added a changeset comment requesting an explanation for the
> change and will link to this discussion.
>
> It is not really redundant as soon as you make a bit more interesting name
> display.
>
> if someone would want to display names in English but in case of English
> name being
> unavailable, show German name (which would be preferred over say "京市北")
>

That's a reasonable use case that I hadn't considered.  It does still feel
a bit redundant but I can accept that explanation.  It is probably worth
adding a revision to the name=* wiki page expressing this.
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