[OSM-talk] Transcription and 'internationalization' in place names

[Stephan Knauss]

Andrew Errington writes: 

> Alternatively, is there a mechanism to link name=* and name:xx=*?
> Then we only have to enter the information once, but we can answer the
> question "What is the name of Seoul in Korean?" unambiguously.

You can get the geographic location of a feature by checking whether it's 
inside a bounding polygon. So if you use the polygon for Korea you can tell 
whether a feature is in Korea or not.
Based on this decision you can have multiple rules on how to render names. 
You could for example have a different rule to construct the displayed name 
in Korea than in Japan. 

Stephan