[OSM-talk] Explicit tagging of name language

[Shaun McDonald]

On 6 Dec 2010, at 10:10, Frederik Ramm 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?
> 

Yes there is and technically should be.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/3493177 is an example where there is no other name tags.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/269271354 is an example where you have the name in English in the name tag, and no name:en tag.
And I have found one where name is in Gaelic, with a separate en tag, but no other name tags: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/380646

Shaun

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