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

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On Jan 9, 2008 3:17 PM, Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:

> 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).


My proposed new version of lowzoom for tiles at home will render country names.


>
> 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.
>

There are 38 place=country tags in the database.  There are over 75 country
based wiki-projects.  We could do with a few more country tags being added I
guess.


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