Hi, Ed Avis wrote: [...] > I believe the answer, as so often, is to improve the tagging used so that > software has the information it needs. In this case an explicit English- > language name should be added, so we have > > name=Scotland > name:en=Scotland > name:fr=Ecosse > name:es=Escocia > > (Another way to tag the same info would be to invent a new tag > 'language_of_main_name=en' but this seems cumbersome and would not be > understood > by existing software.)
This is also the solution I am using when tagging stuff in the German Community of Belgium, where many places, streets, etc have both german and french names. But this is indeed a problem in many areas - with special focus on countries with more than one official language. (But of course also - for example - in touristic places and elsewhere.) The only objection I have is that it introduces some sort of redundancy - even if small. I can't think of a better solution so far, though. > In the new year I plan to write a small tool to help fix these, prompting a > human being to decide or at least verify the language of each name. Then an > additional name:XX tag will be added to the object. Sound sensible? Could be a solution, I think. Michael _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
