Hello, There are many places on this earth which have need for multilingual place names. Now both OSM maps only support one name for each place, which is a bad design. The result are combined name-Tags which carry the international name and local form or two local names. Nearly in all cases this looks pretty ugly.
The correct form would be to display the major name larger and the less important name smaller below and in brackets. e.g. Praha (Prague) Now we have the problem, that it is not easy to find the major and the minor name. E.G. here in Saxony it can be a) maro name is internation name and minor would be german or b) major name is german and minor name is Sorbian My idea to solve that problem would be table containing polygons and preferences. E.g. - border of saxony-polygon: order is name:de,name:hsb,name:lsb - Czech republic: order is name:cz,name:de - country xx: order is name:ru,name:ar ... Now for tah we may append name:en or int_name and prepend name for all cases and always take the first two different entries for display. Others may choose other languages as preferred, but the order is still existing and helpful. When we store this data in some of the already existing region based polygons (e.g. boundaries), the support for this would be really easy and we could improve the language handling a lot. Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
