[OSM-talk] Local language help

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Jo, thx, so if these kinds of objects already have "name:xx" for all
mentioned languages, international map would use those instead of the name
tag anyway, so that's not an issue.

BTW, international maps have launched on Wikipedias!
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-May/089964.html

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 2:34 AM Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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