Dave Stubbs wrote: > 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. > > Even if there is no name:en, the international renderer can fallback to the int_name and then finally to local name attribute.
Sticking to the "as on ground" rule can probably elegantly avoid some of the known naming disputes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Geographical_naming_disputes Stefan _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
