[OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/2/21 moltonel 3x Combo <moltonel at gmail.com>:
> Nice :) I just wanted to point out a paragraph on the tool which IMHO
> is bad advice :
>
>> Sometimes the name of a country in the selected language (the value of the name:xx-Tag)
>> is identical to the name of this country in the native language of this country .... You may delete
>> those name:xx-Tags without changing anything in the effective Name.
>
> The recent multilingual map has demonstrated that it is actually *not*
> ok to leave out the name:xx tag if it is identical to the name tag.


+1, at least as long as we don't store the default/official
language(s) for a feature, the name:xx tag should not be removed, even
if it is a duplicate of the name tag.


cheers,
Martin