On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Claudius <[email protected]> wrote: > Now I recall where I see the problem with a fallback rule like > > de: name:de, name:en, name:fr, name > > If you look at Germany in the OSM db most of the placenames just have > the german name in the name-tag but don't reproduce the redundant > information in name:de. If you would take this example node: > > place=city > name=München > name:en=Munich > > the above rule would lead to the english name being shown on the german > name overlay. So the fallback needs to be location aware and should > probably not trigger in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Yeah, that's actually a bigger problem with the way we're tagging. I get a slightly bizarre experience using nominatim - if I search for "United Kingdom" the first result is "Royaume Uni", if I search for "Scotland" it results in "Schottland". In both cases this is because nominatim is picking up my browser language preferences - there's no name:en on either so it falls back to name:de, name:fr or name:es - and only if all those tags are missing from an object will it show me the english name for things in the UK/USA/Canada. Which is understandable, but seems bizarre to most people. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
