Thanks Rory, that's an interesting case. One thing of note is grouping names by language/dialect is fairly common but still arbitrary division -- i.e. it assumes that a group of people speaking one language/dialect have no contradictions in naming something. But just like we should not assume language is the same as a location for wiki documentation, names could also differ depending on location rather than name.
A case to the point: Russian speakers from New York tend to say "in Manhattan" (meaning -- in the city/borough of Manhattan), where as Russian speakers from everywhere else tend to say "on Manhattan" (on an island of Manhattan). I suspect this has cultural roots -- there was a popular song with words "live on Manhattan" that recently made that expression popular everywhere except for the Russian-speaking NYC populace. Of course this is not something we need to document in OSM, but it highlights that language is not homogeneous with naming.... and just makes a fun story :) On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 6:22 AM Rory McCann <r...@technomancy.org> wrote: > On 07.02.20 20:22, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > > (e.g. two fairly large groups of people could refer to the same > > place/object by different names). ... the map should be able to > > reflect difference of opinions to some "reasonable" degree (an > > intentionally vague term). > One useful example of that is a city in the north west of the island of > Ireland, called (in English) either Derry or Londonderry. Everyone > agrees on the Irish name (`name:ga`) (Doire). OSM's > multilingual tagging scheme, but for dialects, are used to differentiate > the Hiberno-English (en_IE) name (Derry) from the > British-English (en_GB) term (Londonderry). The `name` > tag uses the commonly used compromise. That approach could work for > other areas. > > RFC 1766 (for IETF language tags) appears to allow quite detailed > specification of languages & areas, and could be useful. > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/267762522 > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1766 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag >
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