[OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List
Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdreist at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 14:01:42 UTC 2013
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
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