Am 16.04.2012 09:54, schrieb Maarten Deen:
Wouldn't it be an idea to tag the name in the characterset of the
country and have the renderer decide whether or not to render a
name:en tag with the name tag?
I don't think it's a simple task to decide from the unicode
representation of osm tags about the character set of the country, as
it's not "encoded" in that way.
name:en might additionally not be what we want internationally.
Let's take Beijing as an example:
- it's something in chinese glyphs as a local name (and I'm not sure, if
there aren't several variants even in chinese
- in Germany it's called "Peking", which originates in south china
(according to wikipedia)
- Gaeilge language uses Béising
- Italians use Pechino
In this case English seems to use the "right" transcription "Beijing",
but I'm sure there are other cases, where English (or at least British
English) uses a more "customized" version, e.g. from colonialism.
I don't know if the renderingrules allow such a decision to make.
After all, the renderingrules decide how the map looks like, and I can
understand if countries that do not use latin script want to render a
"latin-clean" map.
And: do not tag for the renderer. Entering names twice is tagging for
the renderer.
+10
regards
Peter
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