[OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

[Hans Schmidt]

Am 21.02.2013 11:43, schrieb moltonel 3x Combo:
> So instead of saying that one "may delete the name:xx tag if it is
> identical to the name tag" (to reduce bloat, presumably), the
> multilingual-country-list should encourage to add the name:xx tag in
> all cases.

I would rather vote for a solution which compares the name tag according 
to region. So, for Central African Republic the default language is set 
to french, meaning that name is automatically also becoming name:fr.

Of course, you have some problems with multilingual countries, but most 
of them have one strongly dominant language (China, USA), or the 
languages are divided by region (Belgium, Switzerland). If there are 
some few leftovers which do pose problem (where there is no clearly 
defined language – e.g. Brussels), one can look for individual solutions 
for them.

If you recommend to add a redundant name:xx tag, most people will not 
follow that advice. You would have to do that for every single road, 
every single shop, every single bus stop. This is not practical. It is 
much more practical to do it in the renderer.