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

[Martin Constantino–Bodin]

> 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. 

As a side question: how many places are actually affected by this, in an 
order of magnitude? I would expect most seas and oceans, some englobing 
territories like continents (although we discussed before that 
continents doesn’t make much sense in OSM), multilingual political 
entities (Europe, Mercosul, etc.), and I guess stateless Islands 
(typically around Antarctica). I guess it’s more than an hundred, but is 
it much more than a thousand?

The reason I’m asking is that there may actually be a relatively 
reasonable number of tiles affected by the issue. I understand that it 
would be quite a heavy technical challenge to have to deal with several 
versions of similar tiles, but at least it may actually not take that 
much additional space.

(Also, it might put things into perspective to have an idea of how many 
places we are discussing here ☺)

Regards,
Martin.