[OSM-talk] Explicit tagging of name language

[Vincent Pottier]

Le 06/12/2010 12:52, Steve Bennett a écrit :
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Ed Avis<eda at waniasset.com>  wrote:
>    
>> We could add per-country or per-geographical-area rules about what the 'default'
>> language is.  But that seems like the wrong answer, and would give the wrong
>> result in many cases.
>>      
> Seems like the right answer to me. There are lots of things that would
> benefit from this scheme: default speed limits, driving on left/right,
> default access rights, etc etc...
>
>    
>> Often, there is no sharp dividing line between one language area and another
>>      
> So those areas should specify languages explicitly. Very many
> countries have a single official language. Asking every mapper to add
> this extra tag, rather than just the ones where it could be ambiguous,
> doesn't make sense.
>
> I have no idea if anyone's interested in implementing the "default"
> system though.
>
> Steve
>    
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Defaults
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