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

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Janko, while I agree that it is possible in theory, I am not sure this is a
big problem. After all, if you are downloading a single region, you are
much more likely to know more about that region, and not need any
defaults.  The problem solved by the default_language is fairly specific to
planet-level maps, where there are too many languages to manage
realistically.   I think that adding and managing this tag on every
possible region (tens of thousands?), just in case someone somewhere might
need it seems like a bad idea. Appending it dynamically on download might
be ok, but again - there has to be someone whom this benefit in a
significant way, and this has to be a simpler solution than alternatives.

One option BTW might be to create a service that produces a map of defaults
- than it would be a relatively small download, allowing users to convert
any geopoint into a language.


On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 2:25 AM Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com> wrote:

> sub, 5. svi 2018. u 00:18 Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com>
> napisao je:
>
>>
>> Tag description:
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:default_language
>>
>
> I like it overall. I'm not sure about this one:
> *Do not set it on any smaller sub-regions unless their default language is
> different.*
>
> I agree that is cleaner, but what if a data consumer only downloads one US
> state, how will it know the default language? Maybe there are some other
> ways I'm not aware of, like filling in the gaps in data before publishing
> derived maps.
>
> If this is indeed a problem for data consumers, I would set the tag on all
> subregions up until a sensible level. We can see the smallest size of a
> region some applications offer for download.
>
> Janko
>
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