Claudius Henrichs wrote: > Am 06.03.2009 23:38, Renaud MICHEL: >> Le vendredi 06 mars 2009 à 22:54, Pieren a écrit : >>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Pierre-André Jacquod >>> >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> If someone wants to edit / create a map in Hebrew (or language X), then >>>> he would use first all name:he (or name:X) irrespective of the local >>>> language, then where it does not exist name=.. would be used. This >>>> would alow to have all existing names in language X displayed in >>>> language X, independently of the local language. >>> I perfectly agree with the rule above. If name:xx does not exist, use >>> name (for local rendering). And it is for the same reason that when >>> name:xx=name, don't waste your time to enter twice the same thing. >> But what if you want to handle multiple language fallback? >> Let's say for example you want a map primarily in english (name:en), if >> english is not available you fallback to french (name:en), if not available >> either you take the default name (name, wich may be in any language and >> using non-latin character set). >> Now for names whose main langaue is english, if you don't encode a name:en >> but you have a name:fr you'll end up choosing the french version while you >> would have prefered the english one. > > This can be avoided easily by proprocessing: Take a polygon of > english-speaking countries or regions and copy values from name to name:en.
Hi, would be too easy.... local name does not need to be in the official language of the country / region. And what about mixed part regions (country with several official language like Switzerland, Belgium...) You can not default a region to a language, and you can not assume the missing key (e.g if you have name:Bienne name:fr Bienne, you can not say name is like name:de Biel ...!!! Bienne is french speaking, but in a german speaking region..) regards paj _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
