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

[Pierre-André Jacquod]

Hi
> 1) This proposal will not help the Brussels map, where a similar need exists.
> In Brussels they want the default map to show street names in France and Dutch.
> see http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.77218&lon=4.38126&zoom=15&layers=B000FTTT
> for
> a road with these tags:
>        name="Avenue de la Sapinière - Denneboslaan"   <--- could be
> "{name:fr} - {name:nl}"
>        name:fr="Avenue de la Sapinière"
>        name:nl="Denneboslaan"
A possibility would be to tag the language like: name:local_lang=fr - nl
where the separator is the one that has to be used for the
representation. (iso-codes are known, the rest is spearator)

> 2) Sometime an object (node/way/relation) contains more then one
> translatable tag.
> For example, a house address is a node with
> addr:housenumber="12Alef"    <----- translatable
> addr:street="Herzel"               <----- translatable
> addr:city="Tel-Aviv"                 <----- translatable
> addr:country="IL"
> addr:full="........"                    <----- translatable
> building=yes
> name="Azrieli Shopping Mall"  <----- translatable
> 
> Do we want to add a single a tag for each translatable tag:
>   addr:housenumber:lang=de
>   addr:street:lang=de
>   addr:citylang=de
>   addr:full:lang=de
>   name:lang=de
> or do we want a single tag to indicate the text labels for the entire
> node/way/relation?

Aaargh....

Ok I think the local language(s) is (are) the same for all description
of a node/way/relation. Then I think we should introduce a new tag, like
local_lang=xx and then tag name:xx=Germany addr:city:en="Tel-Aviv" and
so on... ????
what do you think about it??
best regards
paj