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

[Nick Black]

Hi Guys,
Was there an agreed answer to this issue.

I want to tag an address in Kyiv using both the English and Ukrainian street
names.

Sounds like I can do:

addr:street:en:Tereschenkivska Street

and

addr:street:ua:Терещнкіівська

Is this best practice?


On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 15 March 2009, Tal wrote:
> > name:local_lang="fr - nl" is indeed an interesting idea, that I
> > haven't thought of.
> > However, I ask myself if it's flexible enough.
> > It seems that for just a little more coding you get the much more
> > flexible "{name:fr} - {name:nl}" (with special escape combinations
> > \\, \{, \}  ).
> >
> > I think that mappers from Brussels and also other parts of the word
> > with strings comprised from two languages should add there insights.
> > Do they care about this problem? Are they willing to use such a
> > solution?
>
> Only if it's actually rendering both names, and only if it applies to an
> area that automatically adds the "local_lang=fr;nl" tag to all objects
> inside its boundaries (it's just a bad idea to tag every object with
> what it's local language is, you can override with a tag on the object
> itself if it's different).
>
> I wouldn't do "local_lang=fr - nl" as the separator can always vary for
> the same object (you could have a dash, or a newline or just a space, a
> slash or a bullet or whatever), depending on what the person making the
> maps likes most.
>
> But given the complexity of handling boundaries to add tags to the
> objects I think we'll be doing "name=Dutch name - French
> name", "name:nl=Dutch name", "name:fr=French name" in Brussels for a
> long time to come.
>
> Greetings
> Ben
>
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