[OSM-talk] Explicit tagging of name language

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 10:00:57AM +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
> 
> In an attempt to fix this I have asked the maintainer of
> <http://keepright.ipax.at/> to add a data check.  Where a choice of languages
> exists for a name, then there should be one that corresponds to the main
> 'name' tag.  In other words for the example above there was name=Scotland but
> not any name:XX=Scotland.  One should be added indicating the language of this
> name, so that user interfaces can choose among the name:XX.  Of course if an
> object has just a single name tag to be used for all languages, that's fine.

This will atleast give bogus warnings with places like Brussels that
are bilingual, where name actually contains the name in both languages
(Dutch and French), and also has the language specific name for both
languages.


Kurt