I personally am not a fan of using 8 different names in one name tag (though some countries that have multiple equal languages do favour that nationally). The example here "Baltijas jūra / Baltijos jūra / Itämeri / Läänemeri / Morze Bałtyckie / Östersjön / Østersøen / Ostsee / Балтийское море" seems a bit clumsy.
As a side question: how many places are actually affected by this, in an order of magnitude? I would expect most seas and oceans, some englobing territories like continents (although we discussed before that continents doesn’t make much sense in OSM), multilingual political entities (Europe, Mercosul, etc.), and I guess stateless Islands (typically around Antarctica). I guess it’s more than an hundred, but is it much more than a thousand?
The reason I’m asking is that there may actually be a relatively reasonable number of tiles affected by the issue. I understand that it would be quite a heavy technical challenge to have to deal with several versions of similar tiles, but at least it may actually not take that much additional space.
(Also, it might put things into perspective to have an idea of how many places we are discussing here ☺)
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