Jo, thx, so if these kinds of objects already have "name:xx" for all mentioned languages, international map would use those instead of the name tag anyway, so that's not an issue.
BTW, international maps have launched on Wikipedias! https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-May/089964.html On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 2:34 AM Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Where problems actually do occur is in streets which have a different name > on both sides (only in Belgium, I guess. It happens on streets that form > the border between two 'villages'). Anyway, then the name tag can contain > up to 4 variants. > > The separator is ' - ' on purpose, to distinguish it from a simple hyphen. > We were smart enough not to use that ' - ' combination for anything else > than separating 2 language forms. And there is always a name:nl and name:fr > to compare with on those objects. > > Jo > > 2018-05-10 1:10 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>: > >> >> >> sent from a phone >> >> > On 10. May 2018, at 00:47, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > In the few rare cases when it does happen, it would be enough to also >> add "name:fr" and "name:nl" tags to fix the issue -- localization would >> take the specific language, and won't even try to parse the name tag. I >> think finding these cases should be relatively easy with OT. >> >> >> The problem I see with less prominent objects is that you only have a >> name and can’t tell whether that is one name in one language or 2 names in >> different languages for the same thing separated by a hyphen. Potentially >> this could happen in other tags like operator as well. >> >> cheers, >> Martin > > >
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