I understand the name of Lake Baikal in Russian is "Байкал", without the "озерo" attribute, but you want to be able to search for озеро as well: would the following be acceptable/valid?
water=lake
water:RU=озеро
name=Lake Baikal
name:RU=Байкал
name:FR=Lac Baïkal
On 2018-12-05 23:41, Eugene Podshivalov wrote:
> Marc and OSMDoudou,
> I did see that in France they put their local school categories into
> "school:FR" tag but do you think this approach can be propogated for all
> other categories?
> E.g. in Russian there are different types of man-made small bodies of water.
> Will it work to denote them as water:RU=пруд and water:RU=копанка instead of
> the generic water=pond?
>
> Graeme,
>
> When you say "you get results which differ a lot from what is locally
> called a "lake".", do you mean what is called a lake in Russia,
> or what is called a lake in the country you are searching in?
>
> I mean when you search for "water=lake" tag you don't necesseraly get "озеро"
> (which is usually tranlated from Russian as "lake"). So unless you have
> "озеро" in the name tag you will never find all these objects which are
> called "озеро" in Russian.
>
> Because, if you search for "lake" in Australia, you will find a lot of
> references to salt lakes, possibly dry, that may only actually have water in
> them very rarely,
> or in some cases, never in human memory! But they are still called lakes,
> the same as the "normal" inland bodies of water.
>
> There is intermitent=yes tag to denote dry lakes as far as I remember.
>
> чт, 6 дек. 2018 г. в 01:04, Sergio Manzi <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>
> you're probably right, but it would nonetheless be the "/child of a
> lesser God/" compared to a "deli" in New York, USA...
>
>
> On 2018-12-05 22:51, Dave F wrote:
>
>> Going off topic, but you /can/ tag it as "shop=salumeria", it will still
>> be searchable & will be displayed on the standard map with its name & a dot.
>
>
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