[Talk-us] Change sets covering entire US?

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

Thanks Mateusz, I went through and did some editing.

One point that jumped out as questionable was the implied repeating of the
local-language tag for unremarkable places without translation, so I took
that mention out.  I assume we don't want to add (for example) a duplicate
name:en=* tag to every village, street, and sandwich shop in the country
that doesn't have a translation in some other language.  The
name:local_lang=* is only needed when there's at least two languages tagged.


> It is already, in fact I added this already as usefulness of this info is
> quite surprising.
>
> For example it surprised me when I initially implemented this fallback and
> started getting German names for cities in Poland (typical case of
> software doing
> what instructed, not what intended).
>
> So I am not surprised that it is not known more widely.
>
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Repeating_name_with_language_specific_tag
>
> Feel free to edit it if something is poorly written there, maybe it should
> be also qualified
> that such explicit language tagging is not fully accepted.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20211109/1732521e/attachment.htm>