I think the existing convention works really well. Use name tag for latin script and specific language tag for that language names. I think this makes it easy to work and also divide work.
On Jul 4, 2016 11:34 PM, "Arun Ganesh" <[email protected]> wrote: > Bringing this up since there are recent edits adding multilingual labels > to the `name` tag [1][2]. > > The current convention that has been followed is to use `name` for the > local name in latin script. The reasoning if I remember was two fold: > - English being one of the official languages, latin script is widely used > in cities and in public signages in smaller towns. Only in villages it is > uncommon. > - Keeping the tagging convention simple[3], that could be used throughout > the country in a standard way > > Keeping just one name in each tag, we have been able to avoid issues like > the first mapper rule[4] that could cause unnecessary regional conflicts > over ordering of scripts like in Belgium (and they have just two languages). > > Since we can add the regional names in their own name:lang tag, no data is > ultimately lost, and it is upto the data consumer to choose which language > to support for the user. > > Would be great to hear positives and negatives of this approach and how it > benefits the public Is it time to revise this convention to be more > regional rather than national? > > > [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40472998 > [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40479683 > [3] > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India#Naming_in_different_scripts_and_languages > > -- > Arun Ganesh > @planemad > <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > >
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