[OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language
Christoph Hormann
osm at imagico.de
Wed Apr 25 08:57:59 UTC 2018
On Wednesday 25 April 2018, Jo wrote:
>
> There is this proposal:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/
> Language_information_for_name
That was a very different idea to what Frederik mentioned - this was
meant to specify the language of the name=* tag. This was intended to
solve a very specific problem but was mostly rejected because it would
add a lot of complexity to only solve that problem but not affect most
of the other language related issues in mapping.
Lukas had made another proposal ultimately rejected that is somewhat
more generic but is still doing things 'the other way round', i.e. by
providing language information for the name tag:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Language_information
I don't think the idea of specifying the local name by reference to the
local language has so far been elaborated on in the OSM wiki.
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Christoph Hormann
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