On 21 February 2013 13:29, Hans Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > yes, I know that especially for African countries, this could get messy. > There are many other examples where this would clearly give benefits, > though. For problematic cases one could develop something special.
It gets messy in a lot of places in the world. To pick just one example that I know well : Ireland has both English and Irish names everywhere, but which one goes into the "name" tag can be very tricky to figure out. There are a few areas of Ireland where the Irish name is the dominant one, but the boundaries are fuzzy and osm doesn't have a relation for them. Some places use an Irish name in an English-dominated area, and vice-versa. There's even a town that uses English for its name, but Irish for the name of its train station. It's just too messy, I do not see how defining a default language for a region could deal with such cases. Remember that which language is selected for the name tag is sometimes very contentious, and that it gets sorted by the local mappers rather than by the sysadmin of some mapnik server. Besides, I actually think that adding the "redundant" name:XX tag is actually simpler than modifying the code of many renderers to take something completely new into account. On the other hand, it should be very easy to check that "if a place has at least one name:xx tag, it should also have one that matches the name tag" either inside the editor or via a bot. -- Vincent de Phily _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
