> Hi > > I revived the Multilingual Country-List tool. Now with Overpass-API as > source, it's a useful tool again. If you find the time, head over to > <http://toolserver.org/~mazder/multilingual-country-list/> and look for > your favorite language.
Nice :) I just wanted to point out a paragraph on the tool which IMHO is bad advice : > Sometimes the name of a country in the selected language (the value of the > name:xx-Tag) > is identical to the name of this country in the native language of this > country (which is > stored in the name-Tag). Because the content of the name-Tag is the natural > fallback for > a missing name:xx-Tag, in such a case there should be no name:xx-Tag for this > language. > But if there's one anyway, this duplicate tag is highlighted in orange. You > may delete > those name:xx-Tags without changing anything in the effective Name. The recent multilingual map has demonstrated that it is actually *not* ok to leave out the name:xx tag if it is identical to the name tag. Consider this usecase : * I prefer to read French but can also read English, so I set may language priority to name:fr -> name:en -> name. * I now take a look at a country like "Central African Republic" whose local name is a French one. * If the name:fr tag is present I get to see the French name. * If the name:fr is removed, I get to see the English name, which is acceptable but suboptimal. So instead of saying that one "may delete the name:xx tag if it is identical to the name tag" (to reduce bloat, presumably), the multilingual-country-list should encourage to add the name:xx tag in all cases. -- Vincent de Phily PS: newly registered to mailing-list, sorry if threading is messed-up. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
