[OSM-talk] Bilingual street names

[Barnett, Phillip]

Hi Tom,

But doesn't that give the English version the default prominence, as it
were? I know some people who'd be a mite touchy about that :-) - perhaps
use name:en and name:cym rather than just name? And do the renderers
deal with that OK? 

Cheers


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Higgy [mailto:higgy at bandnet.org] 
Sent: 21 April 2007 16:40
To: Barnett, Phillip
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Bilingual street names

Hi Phillip,

As I've been mapping odd bits of Wales, mainly Mold and Wrexham, I've 
come across similar bilingual signs. I was told use name= for the 
English name and name:cym= for the Welsh name so that's what I've been 
doing since.

Which brings the point, is it worth rendering the other language names 
in the slippy map tiles? Or simply creating foreign language maps in 
future, maybe as a separate map layer as T at H supports it?

Cheers,

Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> How are people dealing with bilingual streetnames, such as this one? 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/hypowren/199707134/
> 
>  
> 
> Map features suggests using a fairly confusing (IMO) range of 'common 
> default', 'international', 'national', 'regional', and 'local' names, 
> but in my case I'm not sure which ones to go for. Specifically, I do 
> occasional mapping of Wales (more so this summer, I suspect) and most 
> streetnames are bilingual, often, but not always, direct translations.

> How does one tag these logically.
> 
> I have seen people using country code tags elsewhere, which would be
the 
> obvious best solution, but that doesn't work here, as there is no ISO 
> code for Wales.
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