[OSM-talk] [OSM-newbies] avoid repeating the name tag twice

[marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com]

On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:51:28 +0100, Pierre-André Jacquod
<pjacquod at alumni.ethz.ch> wrote:
> A possibility would be to never use name=, but only name:XX=xxxx and
> have a tag name:local=XX in order to indicate which is the local one.
> For rendering, a default rule could be that if there is only one
> name:XX=xxx without name:local=... then it will use the name:XX whatever
> XX is.

Your "name:local" is the same as the "name" everyone is already using.
Few things actually have names in more then one language on the map.

Marcus