I don't understand this question. Who defines what the preferred name is ? The people living in that street, neighborhood, village, Wales ? Or the subset of mappers in any of those items ?
Can I translate this to the Belgian situation to see if I understand you correctly ? We came up with a solution where there is no preferred way for the mapper, s/he writes in the name field what is on the street name sign (nl & fr) and fills in the name:nl, name:fr fields. The data consumer can then make a map with his/her preference. Roughly 60% of the Belgian are Flemish and will prefer the nl-version. But the majority of the inhabitants of Brussels (or certain neighborhoods) are probably French speaking and well prefer the fr-version. So "preferred" really depends on which group of people you question. Since this is rather subjective, writing down what you see on a sign is much easier then starting a poll, not ? regards m. On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Miguel, > > A question. Many places in Wales are predominantly Welsh- or predominantly > English-speaking. For somewhere like > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3378387351 , if "name" was a compound of > both the Welsh and English names rather than the more frequently / locally > used version, how would I know what the preferred name actually was? > > Currently the answer is easy - look at the "name" tag. If "name" is instead > a compound, how do you suggest a map consumer - or someone just looking at a > map - should do that? > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb