On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:58:23 +0300 Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> wrote:
> The main problem multilingual map effort is trying to solve is how to > calculate the language of the "name" tag. Without it, name tag > becomes nearly useless. For example: > > * An Italian user viewing a feature in China with two tags: "name" and > "name:fr". In this case, "name:fr" tag is preferred because "name" > is likely to be in Chinese - not great for an Italian speaker. > * Same tags, but the feature is in Italy -- now "name" tag is the > better choice because the name is actually in the same language as > the reader. > > Without knowing the language of the "name" tag, we cannot use it as > part of the "script matching" - give preference to languages that use > the same script as the reader, even if the language is different. This is solvable by adding name:it in Italy (related thread just appeared at the talk mailing list). _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
