[OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

[Jonas Häggqvist]

Peter Körner wrote:
> Marc Schütz schrieb:
>
>> [Should name:xx equal to name tags stay or not?]
>
> In my eyes the rule should be: "If it has a name in language xxx *that
> differs from it's native name*, then add a name:xxx tag"

That seemed sensible to me also, but now that I think about it, there's a
significant advantage gained by having the "redundant" name:xx tags. The
fact that such a tag exists, gives you the confidence to say "someone has
thought about this, and this positively is the translation". Rather than
"either this is the same in language xx, or no one has bothered to
translate". I imagine this difference is important in some cases. For
example in the Wikipedia case, the presence of a name:xx tag means you can
be reasonably certain this is the correct name.

In some ways, it does feel wrong though, to have all those tags without
any useful information, but consider that it does have the information
that someone thought about it and added the tag.

-- 
Jonas Häggqvist
rasher(at)rasher(dot)dk