[OSM-talk] "As on ground" country names

[Dave Stubbs]

On Jan 9, 2008 2:06 PM, Stefan Baebler <stefan.baebler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd imagine that OSM's "as on ground" rule for primary names should
> also apply for country nodes (tagged with place=country), however this
> doesn't seem to be the case at the moment.
> http://osmxapi.hypercube.telascience.org/api/0.5/node%5bplace=country%5d
> shows that primary names are english names for most of the countries.
>
> Any thoughts?
> Do we bend the rule here in favor of english over local name?
> How about multilingual countries (eg. Switzerland)


I suspect that this has more to do with them not actually being
rendered by anything (certainly not osmarender, nor mapnik), and also
by them being almost impossible to find during normal map editing (due
to their extremely small size compared to what they represent).

Italy doesn't even have "Italia" /anywhere/ in it's description.

I don't know what people are actually using them for, but i suspect
they'll all get heavily edited now that you've pointed them out.