[OSM-talk] Revival: Multilingual Country-List

[Simon Poole]

In Switzerland we tried for a substantial amount of time to avoid using
the name tag on the Swiss country node (since any single value would be
wrong). Unluckily we could not stop our colleagues from a larger country
in the north wanting to fiddle around with it and last year we decided
to give in and set it to a multi-lingual value.

Besides that we do have have true bilingual municipalities for example
Bienne were we have resorted to the same solution (name = Biel/Bienne).
Assuming that there is single correct language there, or basing a
language selection on geographic regions would clearly be incorrect.

Simon