[OSM-talk] Update: Advice needed - dispute regarding names in Cyprus

Jon Bright jon at siliconcircus.com
Sun Nov 11 19:12:22 GMT 2007


Abigail Brady wrote:
> 
> I'd advise against using name:old.  After all, what happens when you 
> want to tag the placename in the language Mochi (language tag 'old')? :)

...and there was me thinking that ISO 639 only defined two-char codes. 
Oh well.  In that case, and assuming that OSMers plan to use 639-3 
codes, name:old is indeed a poor choice and old_name seems the better 
alternative.

--
Jon




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