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

[Cartinus]

On Thursday 13 August 2009 10:56:03 Pieren wrote:
> 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

This is just adapting to what people are actually putting in the tags.

You don't see many countries tagged like name=la Republique francaise

Nor will you find many printed maps with those full official names printed as 
country labels.

-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus