[OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

moltonel 3x Combo moltonel at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 13:12:05 UTC 2013


On 22 February 2013 09:42, Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
> So:
> - Yes: Software developers should support guessing the natural languages
> (where that's necessary)
> - No: Mappers should NOT delete localized name tags even if these are equal
> to the local one out of the assumption of redundancy.
> - No: Mappers should NOT be told to never add localized tags where only one
> single name tag exists.

Amen to that.

I'd even encourage mappers to add the identical name:XX if any name:YY
is present, but I know it's a tougher sell.



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