It would help greatly if mappers could see names in other languages on a rendered map. I see that the demo, for instance at http://openstreetmap.in/demo.html#9.99/13.9372/75.6525 is still just a demo.
On 5 July 2016 at 07:19, Srravya C <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > >
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