[OSM-talk] OSM/LondonOSM | Re: Crimea situation - on the ground

[Rory McCann]

On 07.02.20 20:22, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
> (e.g. two fairly large groups of people could refer to the same
> place/object by different names). ... the map should be able to
> reflect difference of opinions to some "reasonable" degree (an
> intentionally vague term).
One useful example of that is a city in the north west of the island of 
Ireland, called (in English) either Derry or Londonderry. Everyone 
agrees on the Irish name (`name:ga`) (󠀁󠁧󠁡Doire󠀁󠁿). OSM's 
multilingual tagging scheme, but for dialects, are used to differentiate 
the Hiberno-English (en_IE) name (󠀁󠁥󠁮󠀭󠁉󠁅Derry󠀁󠁿) from the 
British-English (en_GB) term (󠀁󠁥󠁮󠀭󠁇󠁂Londonderry󠀁󠁿). The `name` 
tag uses the commonly used compromise. That approach could work for 
other areas.

RFC 1766 (for IETF language tags) appears to allow quite detailed 
specification of languages & areas, and could be useful.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/267762522
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1766
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag