Discussing this in parallel on our Riot channel. The decision was made before I joined OSM (thus before 2011). Apparently for the renderer, (as a street name with a semi-colon looks weird to non-insiders I guess).
regards m On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 3:05 PM, Daniel Koć <daniel@koć.pl> wrote: > W dniu 26.04.2018 o 14:49, Marc Gemis pisze: >> The name for the country in the name tag is " België / Belgique / Belgien" >> (*) >> The name for any street in Brussels is either "<name fr> - <name du>" >> or "<name du> - <name fr>" with the majority mapped with French in >> front. >> >> The names never use a semi-colon. Without looking at name:fr / name:nl >> tags you don't know which part of the name belongs to which language >> (I think). >> For Belgium there is no problem, as the names will only contain latin >> characters, but in other cases it might become difficult, not ? > > 1. In database we store values, not typographic conventions, that's why > semicolon to separate multiple values. > > 2. The data consumer can decide what type of separator she wants to use. > It's data presentation part, not data storage. One can decide to show " > België - Belgique - Belgien" for example or fall back to name and so on. > The same with streets: one may always render "<name fr> - <name nl>" or > "<name fr>/<name nl>" or whatever else (like one in bold and the second > one in italics). > > -- > "My method is uncertain/ It's a mess but it's working" [F. Apple] > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
