[OSM-talk] naming an item in multiple languages

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Wed Jun 1 08:26:01 BST 2011


Robin Paulson <robin.paulson <at> gmail.com> writes:

>so, when i name it, i get something like this:
>name:en=Mount Eden
>name:mi=Maungawhau
>
>so, what do i put for name=?

Put whatever you like - the important thing is that you have unambiguously
tagged both the English and Maori names, so people with a preference for one
language or the other can be sure of seeing the one they want.

Some countries like Belgium have a convention of gluing together two names with
a hyphen character and putting that in the name tag.  Personally, I don't like
that; it seems like tagging for the renderer rather than tagging what is
semantically correct.

You might want to follow the conventions used by existing paper maps in your
country.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>




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