On 2018-08-16 09:51, Daniel Koć wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to let you know about proposed change in tagging the name of
USA and I seek for the feedback about it - see the proposition here:
https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=63384
There are arguments to be made for either name, but `name=United States`
`official_name=United States of America` seems like a perfectly
common-sense way to tag it.
I had always assumed it was tagged `name=United States of America`
because of the vastness and blankness of this country in the
openstreetmap-carto style at zoom level 3 in Web Mercator projection.
(Canada needs a longer name, clearly.) But that would be mapping for the
renderer, so by all means shorten it.
Some of the `name:*` tags on the U.S. relation seem to have taken after
`name` by unnecessarily including the equivalent of "of America". For
example, `name:es=Estados Unidos de América` and `name:fr=États-Unis
d'Amérique`. By contrast, there are few `official_name:*` tags on the
U.S. relation. These tags might need to be reviewed -- perhaps checked
against Wikipedia article titles -- to ensure that they too follow
common practice in the respective languages.
On 2018-08-16 10:33, Jack Burke wrote:
> I am opposed to this suggestion, because there are two countries called
> "United States" in North America: the United States of America, and the
> United States of Mexico.
To be pedantic, the official name in Spanish is "Estados Unidos
Mexicanos", rather than "Estados Unidos de México". So the official
English name is "United Mexican States", not "United States of Mexico".
Even if Venezuela hadn't changed its official name from "United States
of Venezuela" (Estados Unidos de Venezuela), I'd still stick to "United
States" for the U.S., because it wouldn't cause any confusion between
the two countries. It would be very different if someone were to propose
`name=America`, reasoning that it's the most common name.
--
m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
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