[OSM-talk] Local language help

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Polyglot, thanks!  I just ran the list of names for Belgium -
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/yEj (takes a few minutes and 20MB download).  It
seems that most of the names are single language.  Even cities tend to be a
single language strings, with a few exceptions (e.g. Brussels itself, and
the country name).

So on one hand, we could set default_language to "nl / fr / de" to match
the country name format, or to two languages that match "Bruxelles -
Brussel"  ("fr - nl" ?). But in reality, the most helpful value is just a
single "nl" or "fr" (?), because for almost all "name" tags, there is just
a single language. The country name is a very rare exception, but it has
many other name:xx defined anyway, so it is not a problem - if user
requests "fr" or "nl", there is a name:fr and name:nl. And if user requests
something that's not defined, at the end it will still fall back to name
tag.

What do you think?

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 2:39 AM Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since there is not 1 language for Belgium and nl;fr;de is not allowed, it
> won't be possible to set this tag for Belgium. I did set it on the
> regions/communities.
>
> Polyglot
>
> 2018-05-08 22:31 GMT+02:00 Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com>:
>
>> Daniel, I agree - it seems most of the low-zoom Moroccan names are in a
>> triple-form,  and many local names are in a wild mix of french only and
>> multi-lingual ones:   https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/yE5 (thx trigpoint &
>> FredrikLindseth on IRC!)  Do you want to change it, or should I?
>>
>> Also, there are still about 60 countries without a tag:
>> http://tinyurl.com/y9382ewv
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 10:59 PM Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl> wrote:
>>
>>> W dniu 08.05.2018 o 21:31, Yuri Astrakhan pisze:
>>>
>>> > This query shows a list of regions that have the new default_language
>>> > tag (you can multisort column with shift or control clicking the
>>> > headers).  http://tinyurl.com/yd6bx6s3
>>>
>>> What about places like Morocco? Shouldn't it be rather similar to
>>> Belgium - "fr ber ar" (because the name is "Maroc ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ المغرب") than
>>> just "ar"?
>>>
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