On 25/03/2018 16:18, Ben Proctor wrote:
(snip)
* But what about the city of Henffordd or the town of Amwythig? They
have Welsh names and English names so the logic would be to use
both in the name tag. Except Hereford - Henffordd and Shrewsbury -
Amwythig are in England and, I suspect, there would not be support
to use bilingual names in OSM outside of the current boundary of
Wales. I don't challenge that but I'd see it as a political
judgement about the boundaries of Wales and the status of the
Welsh language within the United Kingdom rather than a mapping
decision.
Personally, I'd say there's just as much a case for a Welsh language map
that also shows welsh names as the "default name" for use by Welsh
speakers as there is an English-names map for English speakers and a
German-names map for German speakers. Which name any individual map
chooses to show is as you say up to it.
* In the UK generally "name" refers to the name by which it is known
when communicating in English. It seems most straightforward, and
least politically fraught, to me to continue this practice in Wales,.
Actually I'd disagree here - I'd suggest "... most commonly used name"
(which might be one of at least Welsh, English or Gaelic, depending on
the languages locally in use). I wouldn't use an English name for a
place as "name" in a primarily Welsh-speaking area. I don't think that
English should have a special status in the OSM database, even for
places in the UK.
I'd absolutely agree that getting "name:en" and "name:cy" added for
names in use makes sense though.
Best Regards,
Andy
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