[OSM-talk] Languages

[Emilie Laffray]

I personally believe that the tag should exist for named fields, so it
would be different for each nodes or ways.
I think this proposal is pretty sane. Some people have pointed out the
problem about towns like Brussels where this model might not apply as
easily but I am pretty convinced that it would be non controversial
most of the time.

Emilie Laffray

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:25 AM, "Marc Schütz" <schuetzm at gmx.net> wrote:
>> I agree that's nothing political, and there is some information missing.
>> You
>> propose to add this information in the following way:
>>    name=Bergstrasse
>>    name:en=Mountain Road
>>    local_language_used_in_name_tags=de
>>
>> I think it complicates things without a goog reason. I solve it as I've
>> shown above:
>>    name:de=Bergstrasse
>>    name:en=Mountain Road
>
> I remember that in some countries, the "official" language of the name depends on the municipality; in these cases it would be nice to be able to specify this language on the object itself. Otherwise you would have to build a huge external database correlating villages to languages.
>
> Something like this would be feasible in a (hypothetical) german-english bilingual area:
>
> name:de=Bergstrasse
> name:en=Mountain Road
> language:name=de
>
> The language tag could also be used on higher administrative units like counties, and would be automatically inherited to objects inside them, unless explicitly overridden.
>
> Note that you would not need to specify a general "name" tag here.
>
> Regards, Marc
>
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