[Talk-us] Change sets covering entire US?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Yes, there is much lower value in adding name:en to cases where there is no language
specific tag at all.

To the point that adding it would be a poor idea.

If there is just name=* tag then any label will use it anyway.


Nov 9, 2021, 17:18 by zelonewolf at gmail.com:

> Thanks Mateusz, I went through and did some editing.
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> 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.
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>> It is already, in fact I added this already as usefulness of this info is quite surprising.
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>> 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).
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>> So I am not surprised that it is not known more widely.
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>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Repeating_name_with_language_specific_tag
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>> 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.
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