W dniu 26.04.2018 o 14:32, Philip Barnes pisze: > If a place in England should we assume its name is in English? > > Name:en=Llanymynech would be a very odd assumption. As would Hengoed > or Rhydycroesau. > > This cannot be automatic, it needs mappers with local knowledge.
That's pretty sane /general/ assumption, but rules can have /specific/ corner cases, like these. Note that nobody has added name:en=Llanymynech - it's only name=Llanymynech, see: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/29750244 In this case local knowledge is probably to *not add* name:en=*. The data consumer has no "en" value to render (let's talk about rendering for example), so she can fall back to just name=* value - or just skip it, if she wants to show only English names (why not?). What I propose is to have some general assumptions, but in specific cases these can be overriden (like official_name=cy for example) or ommited (if not applicable - for example we don't know the language or we don't have time to add so specific data and name=* is enough). -- "My method is uncertain/ It's a mess but it's working" [F. Apple]
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