At 12:53 AM 1/10/2008, Stefan Baebler wrote: >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.
I hadn't thought of the int_name tag. Yes, that makes perfect sense. Mike Stockholm _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
