[OSM-talk] [Tagging] nomoj de internaciaj objektoj / nazwy obiektów międzynarodowych / names of international objects

[Joseph Eisenberg]

> it *is* worth discussing if (or why) the "name" tag on a body
of water bordered by a number of countries neither of which has English
as an official language, should contain the English name.

I agree. Unfortunately the message has been confused by the poor presentation.

It is quite reasonable to question the use of English in the `name=`
tag for the Baltic Sea.

It would be reasonable to stop using the name= tag for oceans,
continents and international seas, if we can develop a tag which would
specify which of the `name:<language code>=` tags should be treated as
the primary ones. This would make it more feasible to design a
rendering for the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean, and other seas
surrounding by a large number of language areas.

For the oceans and continents there may not be much use in a name tag,
since these labels only make sense on a global map. A map designer or
user can pick the language in that case.

- Joseph Eisenberg

On 2/24/20, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> sent from a phone
>
>> On 24. Feb 2020, at 11:44, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>>
>> We're not there yet though; we're kind of shouting down Tomek because
>> he's aggressively questioning the status quo, but we haven yet managed
>> to come up with a rule that would fortify the status quo.
>
>
>
> there has been mention of utility. From statistical research it would seem
> that English is the language which has most people able to understand it
> (shortly before Chinese, but with significantly more usage as a second
> language). From a practical point of view, there are good arguments to fall
> back to English. This could change in the future, but it would be a long
> way.
> Despite the global statistics, it could well be that regionally, other
> languages would be more useful or “natural” than English, even if that
> language isn’t the mother tongue of the majority of residents in the
> neighboring countries (e.g. Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Mandarin, Russian
> ...)
>
> Cheers Martin
>
>
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