[OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

[Peter Körner]

Am 21.02.2013 11:43, schrieb moltonel 3x Combo:
> Consider this usecase :
> * I prefer to read French but can also read English, so I set may
> language priority to name:fr -> name:en -> name.
> * I now take a look at a country like "Central African Republic" whose
> local name is a French one.
> * If the name:fr tag is present I get to see the French name.
> * If the name:fr is removed, I get to see the English name, which is
> acceptable but suboptimal.
>
> 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.
>

Yes, I see that problem. I removed the offending paragraph and the 
orange coloring. Redundancy is not bad in this case.

Peter