In the proverbial case of of Northern Cyprus, disputed names are "easy" because both sides use different languages, Greek (el) and Turkish (tr). What if the dispute names are in the same language?
I was wondering about this because Philippines and China are currently in a stand-off regarding an atoll in the South China Sea. The atoll is int_name=Scarborough Shoal but in English, the Philippines calls it Panatag Shoal and China calls it Huangyang Island. How do we tag these two names? One possible way is to introduce ISO country codes (in all caps) and with a format similar to int_name:: PH_name:en=Panatag Shoal PH_name:tl=Isla ng Panatag CN_name:en=Huangyang Island CN_name:zh=<I have no idea> But a possible problem is that the country codes might be confused for the language codes, though using all caps should mitigate the confusion. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
