[OSM-talk] tagging and rendering

[SteveC]

On 9 May 2008, at 03:30, elvin ibbotson wrote:

> On 9 May 2008, at 11:05, Dave Stubbs wrote:
>
>>
>> As far as I see it there is no difference between mapping  
>> 11=autobahn,
>> and mapping motorway=autobahn.
>
> I think you missed the point. At present we have highway=motorway and
> I believe a German user would need to use these words. What I suggest

but what you're suggesting is that we make it crap for everybody, not  
just germans

more logical might be to have everything in mandarin or spanish or  
whatever the most spoken language is

Best

Steve