[OSM-talk] international name rendering

[Barnett, Phillip]

Agreed absolutely. 

The int_name seems fairly useless to me - it's defined in the wiki as 'the Internationally known name' but that isn't easy to agree on, unless you use the de facto 'international' language of English - which may be contended by say, the French :-)
In any case, when the Chinese economy takes over the world in the next 20 years, perhaps we'll all be using Chinese as the 'international' language.

Far better to stick with name:xx where xx is the ISO language code. That then means easy rendering of the map for any language (just print the name supplied in the language code of your choice) and an end to these tricky political choices of what is the 'local', 'national' and commonly used names for features in multilingual areas.

I suggest that we deprecate the use of 
# int_name
# nat_name
# reg_name
# loc_name

As defined in the Wiki here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:name

Phillip


 
 



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-----Original Message-----

From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Lester Caine
Sent: 24 May 2007 09:49
To: OSM Talk
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] international name rendering

Alilo wrote:
> Could we have international names to be rendered on the mapnik in name/int_name
> 
> For example
> name: Москва
> int_name: Moscow
> Render on the map: Москва/Moscow
> 
> name:الرباط
> int_name:Rabat
> Rener on the map : الرباط/Rabat
> 
> This would be applied to any object named with the tag (highway /
> place/ railway ...)

But what language do you use for the int_name ;)
It would be useful for those of us who are linguistically challenged if the 
name ALWAYS had a language stamp
name:ru = Москва
name:en = Moscow

I assume Rabat is an arabic language, but its not something I would know 
without going to find where Rabat IS.

The any rendering could be modified to provide a number of alternatives?
Even the 'local' name may not be obvious in countries where two languages are 
used
( Wales comes to mind straight away :) )

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