Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

2020-10-21 Thread Christopher Jones via Talk-GB
Hi Ben, Personally, I don’t see the point of name: Swansea name:en Swansea name:cy Abertawe It's stating the obvious that if name:cy is not the same as name: for a place in Wales, the name attribute is the English, and visa versa. It’s a little close to “tagging for the renderer” for my

Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

2020-10-21 Thread Philip Barnes
On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 12:10 +0100, Ben Proctor wrote: > Thanks to everyone who has chipped in on this thread so far. > > I'd like to draw out what I see as the key threads of the discussion > so far: > The use of :cy and :en name tags should be encouraged. It allows more > flexibility in

Re: [Talk-GB] Multi-lingual tagging in Wales

2020-10-21 Thread Ben Proctor
Thanks to everyone who has chipped in on this thread so far. I'd like to draw out what I see as the key threads of the discussion so far: The use of :cy and :en name tags should be encouraged. It allows more flexibility in rendering and adds clarity. So far this hasn't been a very controversial

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK's first tile layer

2020-10-21 Thread Gareth Boyes
With regard to the discussion on the best transformation, OSM recommends that all transformations from OSGB36 to WGS84 should be carried out using a 3-parameter transformation which is accurate to 21 metres. (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Converting_to_WGS84#Great_Britain