At 03:06 PM 1/9/2008, Stefan Baebler wrote: >Hi! > >I'd imagine that OSM's "as on ground" rule for primary names should >also apply for country nodes (tagged with place=country), however this >doesn't seem to be the case at the moment. >http://osmxapi.hypercube.telascience.org/api/0.5/node%5bplace=country%5d >shows that primary names are english names for most of the countries. > >Any thoughts? >Do we bend the rule here in favor of english over local name? >How about multilingual countries (eg. Switzerland)
The main use at the moment will be for the "international generic map" that OSM hosts directly (as 80n writes) but more will come. I suggest therefore for the moment that the default name should English, repeated as name:en and (at least) the name(s) of the country in its own language(s) and script be entered using the ISO 639-1 [1] language namespace tag: place=country name=Japan name:en=Japan name:ja=<kanji for "nippon"> That will then support national maps as they start to appear and also be useful in searching - I am doing some experimental work resolving the various values in is_in tags back to the actual place and place type. Mike Stockholm [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
