[OSM-talk] Bilingual street names

[Tim Müller]

On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 21:34 +0100, Simon Hewison wrote:

> > 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? 
> 
> I've been using name and nat_name
> where nat_name is the national language name of the place.
> 
> Of course, in Wales, the national language, is Welsh. It just so happens 
> that these days more people in Wales speak English fluently than Welsh.

Since language issues like these are often highly political issues, I
think it would generally be wiser to avoid plain 'name' tags at all in
these cases and only use 'name:en' and 'name:cy' etc., and then let the
renderers sort out what to use as default.

Otherwise there'll soon enough be 'edit wars' where people change back
and forth the default according to their own preference. 

 Cheers
  -Tim