On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Ben Laenen<benlae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chris Browet wrote: >> I wouldn't want to start a flemish/french war, but Brussels is tagged >> [name:nl - name:fr] style where every other name in our capital follow a >> [name:fr - name:nl] standard? >> This would appear to be purely historical, as it is this way since 2007. >> >> I would like an approval on the list before changing it ;-) > > Let's not start language wars, we've luckily been avoiding those since the > start of OSM, but I'm always wary when something like this comes up again :-) > > For now, the rule was pretty easy: the mapper who tagged a street or place > name could decide (as some little prize of being the mapper :-) ), and then > some sort of unwritten rule of conduct in OSM that other people shouldn't just > change things just because they've had another preference, since you'd easily > end up in edit wars when two mappers don't agree. But luckily we've had > nothing of that yet. > > I have a simple rule when it happens that I tag something in Brussels: I sort > alphabetically. I've also heard of the rule that says they tag like on the > street sign (I guess that's French - Dutch pretty much everywhere given the > "Rue Blabla straat" structure?) > > That said, we know French is spoken a lot more in Brussels, so it makes sense. > At least it has my go-ahead. > > Ben
I personally like the rule "use the order used on signs there". A couple of Flemish municipalities have a majority of French speakers, but I doubt it's a good idea to put the French names first there. Just use the order of the signs, Dutch - French, when it is used on official signs. Same thing goes for municipalities with "French - Dutch" and "German - French" signs. If politicians want to change the order, we can let them argue. Coming back to the original question. In Brussels-Capital-Region signs of the region and municipalities are always "French - Dutch". Within Brussels, signs pertaining to buildings of communities, other regions or organisations have sometimes different orders. Whether they should follow the order of the BCR majority is another question. Cheers, Denis Moyogo Jacquerye _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
