I forgot to mention that it is already possible to add “озеро” with expiation alternative name tags. For example, here in Indonesia a river might have waterway=river name=Baliem name:id=Sungai Baliem name:en=Baliem River alt_name:id=Kali Baliem “Sungai” is the word for river in standard Indonesian and “Kali” is a dialectal variant.
So in Russia it might be appropriate to tag Lake Baikal like this: natural=water water=lake name=Байкал name:ru=Байкал name:en=Lake Baikal alt_name:ru=Байкал озеро (Or is it “озеро Байкал“?) WITh this tagging, a search for “озеро” and “Байкал” should work fine. This may also help foreign visitors who might not know the Russian word for lake. -Joseph Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 8:28 AM Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Assuming that “озеро” is a more or less direct translation of “lake”, > then the Russian use is going to have to search for “water=lake”, though I > hope someone will make a translation interface for Overpass Turbo that will > understand natural language queries. > > You wouldn’t suggest that I add tags such as “alam=air” and “air=danau” to > every lake in your country so that Indonesians can search in their own > language, perhaps? > > (That’s “natural=water” and “water=lake” in Bahasa Indonesia. Yes, “air” > means “water”) > > -Joseph > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 8:19 AM Sergio Manzi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I understand your concerns and tend to agree, but how would you manage >> the situation where a Russian want to name the lake as it is known in his >> language, just "Байкал" (*assuming this is the case...*), but also >> wanting to find it with the "озеро" (lake) keyword? >> On 2018-12-06 00:12, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: >> >> But I don’t see a need to translate water=lake into Russian; lest we have >> to do this for every tag in every language. But I believe the Editor >> applications, like JOSM and ID, will provide a Russian translation for >> mappers. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >
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