On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Peter Wendorff <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think a bot would help, but a hint in editors etc. might. > If editing software encourages the user to specify at least one lang:* > additional to name, e.g. by giving a select box to select the language, many > would do that, especially in multilanguage areas or near "language borders". > > On the other hand what would you want to do if there's only one name tag, > and no localized version of it? > use no name instead? Usually you would go for name as there's no better > option. > Same if there's name and some "strange" name:*, but not the one you prefer - > then tage name as a fallback; > and if there's a name:* that equals name, then perfect: use that in your > software. > > A bot cannot fix anything like that: adding name:* works "most often", but > not always, and future mappers aren't encouraged/hinted by tools (QA tools > or Editors) that there's a missing name:*, that could be added to specify > the names language. >
Sure, there are many ways to improve and fix this. Was just trying to highlight the fundamental problem: we have tons of entered data in the database for which we (at the moment) can't tell what language/script they have been entered in. M _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
