[OSM-talk] Announcemen: Multilingual Country-List

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/8/16 Jonas Häggqvist <rasher at rasher.dk>:
> 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.

The green background (marked OK) on Peter's page is also a good
indicator.  FWIW my personal preference is for leaving the identical
values out.

Cheers