Sorry, just realized reply doesn't reply to the list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Miloš Komarčević <kmi...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-hr] Names of towns in Istria To: Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > the general solution is to put into > > - "name" all "official" names (or common versions of official names > and then in official_name the real official name), separated by "/", > see Belgium for example We have had long discussions about this for Serbia as well, as we need to support names in both Cyrillic and Latin scripts (as well as languages of minorities where needed). What you propose is not ideal IMHO for known reasons: abuse (which comes first war), data redundancy, sync. Not to mention that it looks ugly. The default 'name' without the context of a language (and script) is from my point of view (coming from i18n) useless, or it should be understood as name:en, and hence creates problems like this. A proper solution is needed rather than workarounds. As Bernhard points out, it should be the renderer's problem what is displayed, not the database's. One idea I maybe have is that each admin relation (e.g. on whole country level, or per district or lower level as needed) define what is/are the official language/s (and script) for that entity. In addition, renderers can override this to produce maps in whatever language is required. M _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
