[OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language

[Yuri Astrakhan]

I have set this value on some of the more obvious cases in N & S Americas.
I have also created a wiki page describing the tag. Any help with this is
greatly appreciated, especially if you have local knowledge about
subregions!

Tag description:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:default_language

P.S. Janko, please take a look at the single vs multiple languages per
region in that wiki page.  Does that make sense?


On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 1:01 PM Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com> wrote:

> pon, 30. tra 2018. u 08:28 Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com>
> napisao je:
>
>>
>> "official_language" is not a good tag name because it does not match the
>> meaning, e.g. the official languages of Canada are both en & fr, but
>> "name"
>> tag is always in English except for Quebec, where it is in French.
>>
>
>  I agree that "official_language" has a much too restrictive meaning. It
> will bury us in bureaucracy of "what is actually official".
> "default_language" is a bit vague, but maybe a better fit to solve this
> problem.
>
> So just look at a region, see in what language >90% of the labels are, and
> add default_language=*. It's not going to be 100% accurate, but infinitely
> better then nothing. Than try to get closer to 100% by adding
> default_language to subregions, and in the end, individual objects.
>
> I like that approach.
>
> Janko
>
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