[OSM-talk] Explicit tagging of name language

[Frederik Ramm]

Erik,

On 12/06/10 11:19, Erik Johansson wrote:
> :-) 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

The question was about Nominatim originally. As far as I am aware, 
Nominatim already makes an effort to find out in which country something 
lies (so it can give the country in the result list) - so it should be 
trivial to employ a country->language code mapping and always assume 
that the given name is in the country's default language, no?

Bye
Frederik