Marc Schütz schrieb: >> But this implicates that if there is no different name, no name:xx-tag >> should be set (even if it's not *bad* to have one, its also not >> *necessary*). Do you agree with that, Marc? > > I was replying in a hurry, and I see now that it is not as easy as I thought > it to be. I agree that most objects don't have names in all languages. It > would be absurd to add a, say, Inuktitut name to a small street in Budapest, > thereby repeating its hungarian name in potentially several thousand > languages. > > Still I think a case could be made for country names to be different: most of > them are so prominent that I would say they exist in most languages, even if > they are identical to the native names. > > For example, the German names for most European countries are different from > their native names. However, Portugal happens to have the same name (well, > spelling) in German and in Portugese. Would you therefore say, that Portugal > doesn't have a German name? > It has one, but that's not a translation - rust a repetition. And name:xx-tags are (in my opinion), basically translation-tags.
Nevertheless I don't like different rules for similar things, so i don't want to have a different "rule" for countries as for cities. It's a rule in quotation marks, because no one forces you to remove those tags and if you want to add them for a language, i won't go and delete them. It's my opinion that they are needless, and if you don't think so i wont enforce my opinion on you - just go ahead and add them again :) All I want to say is that I don't see any benefit from having those tags. What you'll do with that, that's your thing :) Have a nice weekend! Peter _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
