[OSM-talk] street names on several languages

[Tapio Sokura]

Dave Stubbs wrote:
> For an example go see the node for London
> (http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.4/node/107775)
> It has:
> name=London   (the default English)
> name:fr=Londres   (French)
> name:cy=Llundain   (Welsh)

Some might even say that a complete version of that tagging would also 
include "name:en=London", because nothing is explicitly defining what 
language the default name is on. At least not until we figure out how to 
tag defaults based on an area. You can always guess, but computers are 
quite bad at guessing things.

About the two letter language codes, should we think about moving on to 
ISO 639-2 or -3 three letter language codes? Because the 639-1 list 
doesn't cover the languages spoken in the world that well, especially 
closely related and smaller ones.

   Tapio