[OSM-talk] Explicit tagging of name language

[Peter Wendorff]

Am 07.12.2010 00:29, schrieb 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.
But that is pure tagging-for-the-renderer isn't it?
Why should that be needed?
Should we change Mailand (German name of Italian city) to name="Milano 
(Mailand)"? or to name="Milano (Mailand, Milan)", or should we add the 
chinese name, too, because a big part of the people in the world speak 
chinese?

I think, that's nothing we should include in the name tag - even not in 
Brussels.
Name should be a shortcut to one, best-fitting local language.
Where that is ambiguous name should be ONE fitting, but not more than one.

regards
Peter
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