On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:55 PM Marc Gemis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Are there lots of POIs in Brussels that have a name in both languages in > the database but should only be displayed in one language? > > I don't understand this. Where should the POI be displayed in 1 > language ? That all depends on the maker of the map, not ? If you make > a map in Dutch, you first see if there is a name:nl value, if not you > use name. Marc, I’m sorry if the proposal page is not clear enough. Ideally it should have been translated into a few other languages as well. My question was asking for examples of features that have a name= tag with only the name in one language, but have both name:fr= and name:nl=. > > I discussed your proposal a bit on the Belgian Riot/Matrix channel. > There are several different understandings of your proposal. Some > thought e.g. that the default value tag should be fr - nl (and not > fr;nl). Others see no problem in just having a name tag (and no > name:fr) and so on. The value of default:language= should normally be a single language format code, in most places. But Brussels is one of them exceptions that requires more than one language. So in the case, the semicolon symbol “;” is just meant to separate two values. This is already used for highways that have more than one reference, for example. The tag default:language=fr;nl should prompt a map renderer or database user to find both name:fr and name:nl. It is up to the map renderer to decide how to display the two names, if they wish. I fear that people will start retagging all fr - nl names to fr;nl > names to match the default:language tag This would certainly be a mistake. However, the default:language tag for Brussels would only be on the administrative boundary, not on individual features. Only individual features with a name in a foreign language would need a default:language tag. If individual mapper prefer to merely add the name= tag, they can certainly continue to do this. Database users and map renderers should continue to use the name= tag when there is no name:fr or name:nl tag for a feature in Brussels. >
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