[OSM-talk] Explicit tagging of name language

[Erik Johansson]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 12/06/2010 11:00 AM, Ed Avis wrote:
>>
>> Given that, and the user's preferred languages [en, fr], what name should
>> be
>> picked?  The program cannot know that the name 'Scotland' is in English
>
> Why? Are there places in Scotland that have a Gaelic name in the "name" tag?

:-) Well does anyone have code to add name as "local language" in
postgis, what are the options? Lets not complicate your remark by
enumerating all multilingual areas in the world, where names means
power



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