2009/8/16 Jonas Häggqvist <ras...@rasher.dk>: > That seemed sensible to me also, but now that I think about it, there's a > significant advantage gained by having the "redundant" name:xx tags. The > fact that such a tag exists, gives you the confidence to say "someone has > thought about this, and this positively is the translation". Rather than > "either this is the same in language xx, or no one has bothered to > translate". I imagine this difference is important in some cases. For > example in the Wikipedia case, the presence of a name:xx tag means you can > be reasonably certain this is the correct name.
The green background (marked OK) on Peter's page is also a good indicator. FWIW my personal preference is for leaving the identical values out. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk