[OSM-talk] Relevance of the “name” tag in places where there is no obvious associated language

[john whelan]

The international language would be English.  It is after all the language
of trade and as a consequence absorbed many words from other languages.

But that is taking a pragmatic view and is only one minor voice amongst all
the contributors.  There will be many other voices decrying its use.

One approach would be to tag name:en in areas where the local language
differs or the local written language is unusable by a significant number
of people either because of hardware / software issues or literacy issues.

Cheerio John

On Fri, 6 Dec 2019, 11:00 am Andy Townsend, <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/12/2019 15:10, Tomek wrote:
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305640277
>
> W dniu 19-12-06 o 16:08, Tomek pisze:
>
> EN
> Is this change acceptable and can I continue?
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/78060265
>
>
> Not yet.  Wait what people say in reply.
>
> I personally am not a fan of using 8 different names in one name tag
> (though some countries that have multiple equal languages do favour that
> nationally).   The example here "Baltijas jūra / Baltijos jūra / Itämeri /
> Läänemeri / Morze Bałtyckie / Östersjön / Østersøen / Ostsee / Балтийское
> море" seems a bit clumsy.
>
> Is there an international language used within shipping worldwide?
> Perhaps that would be a better option than this.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andy
>
>
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