On 26-Oct-16 08:52 AM, Michael Reichert wrote:
Hi Warin,
Am 25.10.2016 um 23:32 schrieb Warin:
? You are not proposing removing all the English names from the data base?!
No, he doesn't.
He just proposes to remove the English name from the name=* tag in
countries where English is neither an official language nor a common
(but non-official) language.
Good.
name:en=*, int_name=* etc. will be left
untouched.
How they are used (rendered) is your issue.
Sometimes the developers of rendering styles discover errors in our
data. That's what happened with Sven who develops a German branch of OSM
Carto which does a phonetic transcription of non-Latin scripts into Latin.
PS I agree with Sven's proposal as long as he acts carefully.
As I now understand his idea, I too would encourage the action.
Would any transcription be placed into name:la=* (la is the language code for
Latin)?
There will be some 'particularities' as always. In Australia there is at least
one instance of name:aus where the local indigenous language (non english, but
latin script) has been used. Here the official language is English so the name=
should be used for rendering .. possibly with the name:aus rendered in
brackets, except where they are equal .. then it might be rendered with the
name= tag and the name:en rendered in brackets ... {Included for complexity
that may not have been considered}.
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