[OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

[Peter Wendorff]

Am 21.02.2013 17:47, schrieb moltonel 3x Combo:
> [...]
> Besides, I actually think that adding the "redundant" name:XX tag is 
> actually simpler than modifying the code of many renderers to take 
> something completely new into account. On the other hand, it should be 
> very easy to check that "if a place has at least one name:xx tag, it 
> should also have one that matches the name tag" either inside the 
> editor or via a bot. 
Not sure about that.
Up to know (as far as I know) some areas of the world decided to use a 
combination of two languages or name transcriptions in the name tag, 
like Japan [1] or Brussels [2]. A bot would contradict a working local 
community decision here, why I would oppose to automatically enforce 
that by a bot or to show that as en error by default.
This might change as soon as the most prominent/important osm maps like 
our mapnik rendering support setting the language like in Jochens 
Multilingual Map project, but up to then it's IMHO a bad idea to enforce 
tag wars in multilanguage areas due to "bugs" raised by some bot that 
tries to enforce a name:xx being equal to name.

regards
Peter

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.009&lon=139.057&zoom=10&layers=M
[2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.84654&lon=4.351686&zoom=18&layers=M