Hello Gavin,
I am trying to tag some locations that are located in Japan with the English
name.
The item has been tagged as follows
name:= blah blah - this is written in Japanese letters
I am trying to enter on another line;
name:en= Blah blah - written in English
The validator in JOSM gives me this error message on import;
A name:* translation is missing.
WTF.
What is the correct way to label these items in English?
Thanks
I just had a look at the source code of the validator. The rationale behind the
test is that anything mentioned in the name tag should appear in a
language-specific name tag as well. If name=<japanese characters> you should not
only add some name:en but also that very same japanese characters as name:ja as
well.
It does not appear as an error but is an informational message only. This way to
handle localized names is not expressely stated in the wiki and I encountered it
very frequently that name contains the name in the primary local language and
name:* contain translations only.
I think you could safely ignore this kind of messages and continue tagging as
you did.
Best Regards
Michael
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