[OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/2/23 Tom Taylor <tom.taylor.stds at gmail.com>:
> In fact, here in Ottawa, Canada, we do name= for the English and then
> name:fr= for the French version, for all streets. Across the river in
> Gatineau, Quebec, the practice is to do name=<a name in French> and not
> bother with the English. I have no idea if software trying to process our
> region is aware of the difference.


you might think of adding name:fr and name:en to all objects (where
reasonable / where a name exists in both languages) and add additional
(for downwards compatibility) a "name"-tag in the locally used
language.

cheers,
Martin