I have no real objection to the change, but I must point out that having Korean and English in the name=* tag has been extremely useful to me as a visitor to Korea. Other maps show only Korean. What I would like to see is an international version of the map which shows Korean and English for each object (street, shop, park, whatever) made from "name:ko (name:en)". There have been some experiments for this in the past, so maybe it will happen in the future.
I am glad there has been some dialog on this. I wrote the wiki pages describing the naming convention in detail, but the original convention was chosen long ago based on the same decision made in Japan. Recently Japan has moved away from using Japanese and English in the name=* tag. Again, this is disappointing as the map is useful to me this way, however, hopefully similar functionality can be introduced in the future. I would recommend adding to the Wiki a note about name:ja and name:zh for Japanese and Chinese name tags too. I think ja and zh are the correct language codes. Best wishes, Andrew On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 23:14:26 Max wrote: > There has been nobody coming forward with objections to change the > naming convention. Please do so if you feel that this is going to be > too fast or not in the right direction. > > Do you disagree with the following for the wiki? > > ---- > > Korean is the only official language in Korea. Korean is written in > Hangeul. Street signs often incorporate romanized or translated > versions of names. Most often they are in English, but Chinese and > Japanese can also be found. The romanization should follow the Revised > Romanization of Korean for South Korea, and the McCune–Reischauer > romanization for North Korea. > > name= Name in Hangeul > name:ko= Name in Hangeul > name:en= Translation if available, otherwise romanized > name:ko_rm= romanized > > Example > name=경부고속도로 > name:ko=경부고속도로 > name:en=Gyeongbu Expressway > name:ko_rm=Gyeongbugosokdoro > > ---- > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ko mailing list > Talk-ko@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ko _______________________________________________ Talk-ko mailing list Talk-ko@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ko
