Hi, On 12/06/10 11:48, Ed Avis wrote:
We could add per-country or per-geographical-area rules about what the 'default' language is.
I guess those don't have to be "added", do they? Is it not implicit that places in France will by default have the French name in their "name" tag?
But that seems like the wrong answer, and would give the wrong result in many cases. Often, there is no sharp dividing line between one language area and another, so we do need to tag the language used at the level of individual objects, and not as a set of defaults.
My guess is that a rule like I suggested would yield the correct answer in 99.5% of cases. The remaining 0.5% should receive special tagging because they are the exception; I don't think we should flood the whole database with unnecessary duplication of values. (Where would it end? Just because occasionally a famous street in France will be known to the English by an English name, should every single street in France thus be tagged "name:fr=..."?)
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