[OSM-talk] international name rendering

[Lester Caine]

Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> 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

The humorous examples given actually simply highlight the uselessness of the 
tags :)
How do we display the French version of those? Since the tunnel is at least 
half in France.

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