[OSM-talk] Local language help

[Jo]

Where problems actually do occur is in streets which have a different name
on both sides (only in Belgium, I guess. It happens on streets that form
the border between two 'villages'). Anyway, then the name tag can contain
up to 4 variants.

The separator is ' - ' on purpose, to distinguish it from a simple hyphen.
We were smart enough not to use that ' - ' combination for anything else
than separating 2 language forms. And there is always a name:nl and name:fr
to compare with on those objects.

Jo

2018-05-10 1:10 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:

>
>
> sent from a phone
>
> > On 10. May 2018, at 00:47, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > In the few rare cases when it does happen, it would be enough to also
> add "name:fr" and "name:nl" tags to fix the issue -- localization would
> take the specific language, and won't even try to parse the name tag.  I
> think finding these cases should be relatively easy with OT.
>
>
> The problem I see with less prominent objects is that you only have a name
> and can’t tell whether that is one name in one language or 2 names in
> different languages for the same thing separated by a hyphen. Potentially
> this could happen in other tags like operator as well.
>
> cheers,
> Martin
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