On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Andrew Errington <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:48:37 John Sturdy wrote:
> It's also not true that in a 'monolingual' country that there is only one name > for something. For example, London is 'London' to a British person, > but 'Londres' to a French person. This is what I was referring to in the second part of this sentence: >> Multiple names are really an issue for >> multilingual countries and for major features (typically large cities, >> rivers, and perhaps mountains) in monolingual countries, i.e. London may be "London" to an English person and "Londres" to a French person, but Stourport-on-Severn is "Stourport-on-Severn" to both of them (just picking a smallish town randomly; no potential slur intended). And a lot of names in OSM are street names; as far as I know, it's rare for people from another country to have different names for a country's streets. (I thought I had found one example, "Via Devana" as the Latin name for Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, but when I searched to check that, I found it's 18th-century Latin and not actually Roman.) > I still think it's simple enough to have name=* to be the 'default' name you > get if you don't specify a language, or the name you get if your selected > language is not available. Agreed. __John _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
