[OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

[Lester Caine]

Svavar Kjarrval wrote:
> I was thinking about roughly the same idea except the process is a bit
> different. There could be an alternate usage through references. Something like
> [de] in the name tag could indicate a reference to name:de. A semicolon in the
> name tag could be used to indicate the order of languages to display or backups
> in case the name:* in the front of the line don't exist.

The use of ':' in a key is well establish as flagging a language specific 
version, so one would not touch that. The 'name=' defaulting to a specific 
'lang=' setting makes sense, and can be over-ridden when downloading tag data by 
a client specific setting. The only addition that needs handling is to sort out 
just what goes into 'lang=' when more than one language is required by the on 
the ground situation. In my opinion, we just select a suitable single character 
separator and add the tag with an appropriate list if required. I don't think 
you want to start messing with 'name=' itself in this case? But the tools should 
be able to override the 'name=' tag with a more suitable local option based on a 
local 'lang=' setting.

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