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

[Alan Mackie]

>
> placing a localized version of the name tag in front of the
>
corresponding language area is still an option I support.  Red Sea would
> be a nice test-bed, just like the Ostsee.
>

The problem I see with this is that it violates the 'one feature one
element' principle. The labels would probably need to be tied together into
a relation to avoid this and that then starts to get very complicated very
quickly. You also don't know if you're looking at multiple separately named
regions or one large feature with multiple translations.

Adding a language name to the URL schema does not look so difficult to
> me, what's going to be difficult is paying the money needed to hold the
> data.
>

I think the cost implications mostly go away with vector tiles as you are
essentially "rendering" client side and the additional server side load is
(allegedly) minimal. Browser support and processing power on the consumer
side can then start to be an issue as it's not as trivial to display as a
simple image. From my limited viewpoint the greatest risk I see from vector
tiles is that the capacity for abuse skyrockets as the client side
customisability might lead some to think "this is like Mapbox but free" and
just pull from openstreetmap.org instead of using a proper service.
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