[OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/8/14 Erik Lundin <erik.lundin at aol.se>:
> I think there's a good point of having the redundancy of name:xx tags
> even when it is the same as the name tag, because that makes the
> translated names more safe. For the Swedish translations I saw several
> names that were marked as OK even though they weren't translated. It's
> too easy to read through the names and mark them as OK without thinking
> too much.

On the other hand, some objects sometimes change names, if your street
has a name=, name:en=, name:es= and 30 other tags all set to the same
value, it'll be really annoying to correct all of them if it's found
to be incorrect. (Fortunately street maps deal with quickly changing
information much less often than e.g. encyclopaedia)

BTW, Peter: Montenegro (Crna Gora) is still missing from the
interface, possibly more countries are.

Cheers