Christoph, I agree that this would be an awesome improvement, yet I think there is a problem to implement it. Most languages have their own transliteration rules, so transliterating "name" tag without the knowledge of its language will produce a lot of incorrect names.
I have posted in another threads about this, proposing "default_language" tag to be added to the admin (or smaller) regions to solve this. Copying the rules: * Use the largest possible admin region to set the "default_language" tag to a single language code. "default_language" does not mean the official language of the region. It only specifies the language of the "name" tag. * A region may contain a sub-region with a different default_language. * If a region uses mixed languages in all of its name tags, eg. "[name in en] - [name in zh]", set default_language="en - zh". Try to keep it to a somewhat parsable value to help data consumers. * In some rare cases, additional non-admin regions might be required for the default_language. Try to avoid it if possible. On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 12:09 AM Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > On Thursday 03 May 2018, Joe Matazzoni wrote: > > [...] > > > > We don’t anticipate that these new maps will put any strain on OSM > > performance. The impact I do foresee—and hope for—is that the new > > exposure of multilingual map data will inspire many more Wikimedians > > to contribute to OSM. This is likely to happen when users start to > > see, as they will for the first time, that names in their language > > for some features and places are not available. > > The first and most fundamental thing you should do is add > automatic transliteration as a fallback for multilingual names. > Otherwise people will inevitably add tons of non-verifiable > transliterated names in a misguided attempt improve the map. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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