Found a little more about this topic in a discussion here <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:WikiProject_India#Use_English_for_the_.22name.22_tag>. We could put the details about multilingual naming for India in this page <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names>. So that anybody referring to this page in the future for naming convention, will get an idea about existing conventions followed for India.
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Thejesh GN <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > >
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