[OSM-talk] Editor applet - name/attributes dialog - two names? one would be a start...

[Etienne Cherdlu]

On 4/30/06, Christian van den Bosch <cjb at cjb.ie> wrote:
> Etienne Cherdlu wrote:
>
> > I suppose you could create two separate ways, each with a different
> > name (segments can belong to more than one way).
>
> Good idea. I guess I'll have to look into using something other than the
> applet to do that.
>
> > BTW Are you recording the English or the Gaelic name for streets (eg
> > Upper Baggot Street vs. Sráid an Rátha Uachtarach) or both?
>
> Almost entirely English only, like the street signs. I _could_ translate
> these into Irish, but the names aren't necessarily direct translations -
> Grand Parade in Cork for example, becomes Sráid Capall Buí, which means
> Yellow Horse Street (I put that one into OSM; it doesn't appear on any
> other map of Cork that I've ever seen, but it's on ).

I asked because I noticed that a lot of the street signs in Dublin
actually have both names on them... maybe not so in Cork.

Interesting that they are not always literal translations, definitely
the kind of thing that should go into OSM.  BTW the Map Features page
on the wiki suggests the following keys  for names: name, int_name,
nat_name, reg_name, loc_name, old_name.  I guess that loc_name (local
name) could be used.  So you'd have:

name=Grand Parade
loc_name=Sráid Capall Buí

Etienne


>
> If I were doing bilingual naming properly I'd like to record some
> appropriate meta-information; I haven't yet had a good hard think about
> what form that might take, though.
>
> There's also very few Irish street names indexed by the Ordnance Survey
> of Ireland - perhaps none - though I would imagine that given the
> legislative changes of a year or two ago decreeing that Gaeltacht areas
> shall use Irish-language placenames exclusively, this will change, for
> those areas only.
>
> Christian / cjb
>
> http://www.cjb.ie/
>
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