I think that getting rid of the name tag in those cases is the best way to 
avoid breaking things on the data consumers side, as clever consumers already 
using name:xx would not be affected, and those relying on a name tag to display 
local language wouldn't be mistaken.
Yves 

Le 26 février 2020 13:23:31 GMT+01:00, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> a 
écrit :
>Hi,
>
>On 26.02.20 13:13, Maarten Deen wrote:
>> Will it be nothing in the name tag and are we then going to complain
>> that the opencarto style falls back to name:en?
>
>Increasingly, I think the absence of a name tag wouldn't even be
>noticed. JOSM already shows the name tags in the editing user's
>language; other editors might do that too. If a fallback to name:en
>were
>added to OSM Carto (or more precisely, a fallback to a configurable
>language which would be configured to be English on openstreetmap.org)
>then you could probably remove the name tag from oceans with hardly
>anyone noticing a change.
>
>Bye
>Frederik
>
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