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

Pieren pieren3 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 09:17:46 BST 2012


On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Stephan Knauss <osm at stephans-server.de> wrote:
> 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

The language iso code(s) could be stored in this polygon (usually the
boundary relation). Btw, we already have 200+ country codes ISO3166-1
(http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/ISO3166-1#values).

Pieren



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