[OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

[Peter Körner]

Martin Koppenhoefer schrieb:
> Am 14. August 2009 13:34 schrieb Peter Körner <osm-lists at mazdermind.de>:
>> I understand your concerns when looking at the country-level, but what
>> should we do on the city-level? add the name of all cities in all
>> languages as a translation? Or: what should we do with the languages
>> that are not covered by wikimedia?
> 
> yes, as long as there is a translation of a city-name (or other
> feature, think about "colosseo", "Kolosseum", etc.) different to the
> name in the local language, we should add the tags in these languages.
> There is probably also different alt_names for the same feature in
> different languages (e.g. "flavisches Amphitheater")

But this implicates that if there is no different name, no name:xx-tag 
should be set (even if it's not *bad* to have one, its also not 
*necessary*). Do you agree with that, Marc?

This is my opinion and i'm always willing to change it, if there are 
good arguments to do so.

Peter