I have been convinced to use loc_name for alternate names the local people use which does not have the same etymology (history and origin of the word) as the name. The city of Luxembourg has a nice example of loc_name:
name=Luxembourg name:lb=Lëtzebuerg name:fr=Luxembourg name:de=Luxemburg loc_name=d'Stad (or alternatively loc_name:lb) That's coherent with the definition of loc_name in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name > "gsw" is an iso code grouping all alemannic german dialects around the three > countries Germany, Switzerland and France borders. > But they are so many differences between them I see, Ok. But this suggests to use a distinct language tag, not loc_name, as Marc suggested: > You can probably use IETF language tags with regions, so for Züridütsch you > would have: > gsw-x-zueri (gsw=Swiss German, x-zueri=private subtag Züri). I think this sounds useful (but I would use the canton abbreviation as private subtag): So for the city of Zürich its: name=Zürich name:de:Zürich name:en:Zurich name:gsw-x-zh:Züri (gsw=alemannic german dialect group, x-zueri=private subtag canton of Zürich) alt_name=Limmatstadt ... > In your example, loc_name would be "Stroosburi". Stroosburi (or Schdroosburi as indicated by http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassburg ) seems to me to be the local pronounciation of the respective official name. So I would suggest: name=Strasbourg name:de=Straßburg name:gsw-x-l=Schdroosburi (gsw=alemannic german dialect group, x-zueri=private subtag Luxembourgish) How about this? -S. 2010/11/5 Pieren <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Stefan Keller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> name=Strasbourg >> name:de=Straßburg >> name:gsw=Schdroosburi >> >> Is this example correct (especially "name:gsw=Schdroosburi")? >> > > Yes and no. "gsw" is an iso code grouping all alemannic german dialects > around the three countries Germany, Switzerland and France borders. But they > are so many differences between them that we prefere to use "loc_name" > instead of this ISO code. In your example, loc_name would be "Stroosburi". > > Pieren > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
