OpenStreetMap is fortunate to have a large, multilingual community. We store a "name" tag for local names (sometimes two scripts are used, as in Morocco) and we use "name:en" and other tags to store names from other languages.
In many parts of OpenStreetMap, we have places labeled English-first, or local placenames without alternate names (eg China). I hesitate to call this a *problem *for OSM/HOT, but it could be an interest for expanding OSM's reach and involving partners. Today I set up a prototype on http://city-namer.herokuapp.com/ - it uses Overpass to pick places with a name but no name:[lang] tag. States, districts, and cities are sorted to appear before neighborhoods and hamlets. Currently this doesn't edit anything... it dumps into a database. But if you're interested in making this into a crowd-naming project, please contact me or glom onto the GitHub https://github.com/Georeactor/city-namer Regards, Nick Doiron
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