On Jan 9, 2008 4:22 PM, Michael Collinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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: >
I'd suggest keeping the exact same philosophy as used everywhere else. If you want a generalised english map at the top layer, then just rejig the renderer to use the name:en tag. There aren't that many countries so it shouldn't be too hard to ensure they all have an :en tag. And that way we're not special-casing data entry. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
