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

[Pieren]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Cartinus
>> > Sounds like I can do:
>> > addr:street:en:Tereschenkivska Street
>> > and
>> > addr:street:ua:Терещнкіівська
>> > Is this best practice?
>
> ... This nearby street will have the tags highway=* + name=Терещнкіівська
> + name:en=Tereschenkivska Street (+ maybe name:ua=Терещнкіівська) Then only
> the value of name= of the street needs to match the value of addr:street of
> the object with the address and you can do a more complex look-up to get all
> the multi-lingual versions of the address.
>

Hu! As far as I understood, this thread was about regions where local
names are not obvious:
2009/3/6 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>:
> Because, *sometimes*, the default name is different from the local name in the
> official language... or the official language in a zone may be contested.

In other cases, and most of the time, the local name IS in the
official language. So I don't understand why we should write
name=Терещнкіівська
+ name:ua=Терещнкіівська
or
addr:street:ua:Терещнкіівська

I have the feeling that someone could believe by reading this thread
that the "recommended" way to write all names everywhere is to enter
twice the same:
name=local name
name:local_country_code=local name

which is unnecessary excepted for the special multilingual
zones as commented above. But I don't think Ukraine is in this case.

Pieren