I think that we should avoid semi-colon concatenation where ever we can avoid it.
How about name, for the most common name? name=<varies by location> name:fr=<French> name:en=<English> name:iu=<Inuktitut> name:mow=<Mohawk> etc. Are not parts of Ontario and New Brunswick predominantly francophone? S I'd say Quebec plus some other areas French, and the rest English. Should all of Nunavut be Inuktitut by default? I have seen local roads on First Nations with street signs in Mohawk, I think. Trans Canada Highway sounds to me like an ideal nat_name, and we can name space it. So wouldn't our Yellowhead example work as: nat_name=Trans-Canada Highway nat_name:fr=la Transcanadienne nat_name:en=Trans-Canada Highway Where Yellowhead Highway sounds like a regional name reg_name=Yellowhead Highway reg_name:fr= reg_name:en=Yellowhead Highway While the section through Edmonton is a local name. loc_name=Yellowhead Trail loc_name:fr= loc_name:en=Yellowhead Trail See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Highway http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bilingual_street_names We should preserve the dataset too, so that local editors can improve the data where possible. So that we namespace the imported data: geobase:rtename1en=<original data> geobase:rtename2en=<original data> geobase:rtename3en=<original data> geobase:rtename4en=<original data> and then convert and import like so to take the best guess for a "default" name:en name:en=rtename1en<original data> alt_name:en=rtename2en; rtename3en; rtename4en Similar for the name:fr series then copy either the geobase:rtename1en or geobase:rtename1fr as the default name=rtename1{en/fr/iu depending on locale} Same for the ref tags. Numbered route (up to 5 numbers possible) rtnumber1, rtnumber2, rtnumber3, rtnumber4, rtnumber5 geobase:rtnumber1=<original data> geobase:rtnumber2=<original data> geobase:rtnumber3=<original data> geobase:rtnumber4=<original data> geobase:rtnumber5=<original data> ref=rtnumber1 alt_ref=rtnumber2; rtnumber3; rtnumber4; rtnumber5 _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
