The idea wasn't presented properly.
The names were supposed to be name:[language abbreviation] not
lang:[language abbreviation].
'lang:official' was supposed to be placed in "area wrappers" but could
be misunderstood to mean on every object. The city (or the country)
would have lang:official, not everything in it.
Með kveðju / With regards,
Svavar Kjarrval ([email protected])
s. 863-9900
On 16.12.2010 20:12, Svavar Kjarrval wrote:
You could, if you're worried about multiple languages, do it in this way:
All names would have lang:[language abbreviation] tag and the value
being the name in that language.
The official language(s) for each country would be defined by a tag
named lang:official and the value being a string of language
abbreviations (preferably) in alphabetical order.
In the case of Bruxelles (Brussels), it could be something like this.
For the city itself:
lang:en = Brussels
lang:fr = Bruxelles
lang:nl = Brussel
lang:official = fr,nl
Tag names would be up for discussions.
Með kveðju / With regards,
Svavar Kjarrval ([email protected])
s. 863-9900
On 7.12.2010 14:36, Ben Laenen wrote:
Ed Avis wrote:
Patrick Kilian<osm<at> petschge.de> writes:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruxelles-Brussel.jpg
See two names on the ground.
To me that would suggest putting the French name into 'name'
I suggest you don't, or you'd end up in an edit war otherwise.
Linguistic
issues are a very sensitive subject in Brussels and Belgium. The
rules for
Brussels are very clear: treat both Dutch and French exactly the same
(yes,
even though French is spoken much more in Brussels).
(since it is
on top) and also tagging 'name:fr' and 'name:nl'.
Most streets in Brussels have a name:fr and name:nl tag, next to a
name tag
which has both the French and Dutch name, separated by a dash and
whoever
creates it chooses what language comes first. It works and people are
happy,
and in the past years I've only seen one person who was switching
French and
Dutch names in the name tag to get French first. That's pretty good
given the
huge political tensions between both language groups in Belgium the past
years.
However I can see the argument that exactly what appears on the sign
should
be used. Even so, I would prefer the two names to be tagged separately
and combined by Mapnik at render time, rather than adding a -
character to
the 'name' tag.
That would be great, but we have to get names on the map somehow in
the mean
time.
Ben
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