Sven, your approach makes sense assuming people only look at maps of
their own country. Yes, I agree its respectful to people living in a non
english speaking country but really does not address a much larger problem.
As a native English speaker, I often turn to OSM to help me understand
some of the global issues around at present. But even now, many of the
place names are rendered in local language, quite unreadable to me. As
has been suggested, a database of names in every conceivable language
would be a ideal, then a renderer can deliver a map readable in an
appropriate language. That does sound like wikidata ....
So, I suggest its possible your solution improves a small aspect of a
larger problem but just perhaps also makes that larger problem even worse ?
David
On 26/10/16 02:02, Sven Geggus wrote:
Hello,
in our localized German map style we try to render Country names in German
with local name in parenthesis.
This works fine for a lot of countries. An example would be Thailand:
Thailand (ประเทศไทย)
or (more readable for westerners) France:
Frankreich (France)
Unfortunately there are some countries where this will not work:
Ägypten (Egypt مصر)
So this is where the tagging discussion starts.
I consider this a bad example of tagging for the renderer.
English is not an official language of Egypt thus the string "Egypt" is
simply invalid in the countries name tag.
What I consider valid would be the countires name in all of its official
langages.
Thus the right one would be:
Ägypten (مصر)
So I propose a correction of all country names to names into official langages
of
the respective countries only and to remove all english names.
Any objectives?
Sven
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