[OSM-talk] Naming disputes in Ukraine

[Peter Wendorff]

Am 27.07.2012 10:02, schrieb Lester Caine:
> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> So, my questions to you are
>
> I think there is a broad concensus
>
>> 1. The concrete question: Should all name tag in the Crimea be in 
>> Russian (with
>> appropriate name:uk tags of course), even though the official 
>> language in
>> Ukraine is Ukrainian?
> The raw name= tag shows what will be seen standing at the location.
> It would help if there was also a lang=xx so we know what IS being used!
Again: I'm against lang for that purpose.
Examples:

name=London
lang=en
name:de=London

compared to:
name=London
name:en=London
name:de=London

Benefits:
- There aren't more tags involved,
- It's less error prone or better: it's equally error prone, but better 
to detect errors, as in the first alternative it's not possible to 
detect an error, if anyone only changes lang to any other language.
- Backward-compatibility to name is identical - just use it.
- Editor software could support it by enforcing users to add a language 
for the name-attribute.

regards
Peter

P.S.: I know that this does not solve the variants where more than one 
name is set to the name tag now, but I would leave that to other tags - 
e.g. name:format=ru - cr - en (de)