[OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

[moltonel 3x Combo]

On 22 February 2013 09:51, Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
> 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.

You're right, that's a false-positive right there. It could be fixed
by improving the heuristic, but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.
JOSM users are used to ignore some types of validator warnings, and I
dare hope that any bot admin wouldn't let it run without carefull
checking.

> 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.

Looking forward to that, but it'll probably be a while before we have it ?

But even if all renderers become multilingual, as long as there is a
plain "name" tag, there'll be arguments about which language to put in
it.