[OSM-talk] Tag official_name ? (was Multilingual Country-List)

[Pieren]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:08 AM, andrzej zaborowski<balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
> The instructions at the top of the pages could also mention the
> official_name:* tags - I don't know if these are approved in any way
> but I found they were on some of the nodes and I thought it was a good
> idea to propagate these too where the full name differs from the
> normal name the country is known by (which could otherwise be placed
> in loc_name, but it should probably be the one displayed by default)

What is this mess about official_name, name and loc_name ?

Is someone shifting what was earlier name/loc_name to something new
like official_name/name ?
Where is it discussed/described on this ML or the wiki ?

Pieren