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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