On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:04:12AM +0100, Jonathan Bennett wrote: > Besides, as present you can't have multiple values for a single tag in > OSM, so wikipedia=XX:<name> wouldn't work.
You don't need multiple values. Other languages are linked in Wikipedia, no need to duplicate this in OSM. If a place is described in 20 national Wikipedias do we really want 20 wikipedia=XX:<name> tags in OSM when only single wikipedia=XX:<name> links to all the pages? And more. You need no special handling for wikipedia=XX: links. E.g lets assume we have a client which opens a browser with Wikipedia page for a clicked POI using the wikipedia=* tag. And it has no language support (doesn't read wikipedia:XX=* tags, does not understand wikipedia=XX:*) and it gets: wikipedia=pl:Radiostacja_gliwicka It will open http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pl:Radiostacja_gliwicka Try that link yourself. You will get information about that place. Then click "English" on the sidebar. You will get English description about the same place. All with only one tag. With no special language support in the client. And it will work for other languages if localized Wikipedia pages are created. wikipedia=Gliwice_Radio_Tower Would also work, but would show the English page (Polish page is accessible with the "Polski" link on the left). But I guess, this POI is mostly interesting for Polish users, so polish page is a sane default. Greets, Jacek _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
