I've come across an issue with the current implementation of cardinal directions in roles of relations. In certain areas of the world, roles are being used to determine the cardinal direction of a way in accordance with the AASHTO requirements, however those locales change the official name of the cardinal direction to the name of the direction in their local languages on road signage. Examples include highways in Puerto Rico and Quebec.
Should the tags north, south, east, and west be assigned in these locations according to the official language used on the road signs for those locations (precedent exists like this with Key:name), or should they remain English worldwide, regardless of country? This problem has come up in a bug report I was filing with OSRM where they are currently just spitting out values like $north directly into the end user instructions because they don't know what the best way to handle the problem is yet. I had asked for it to be rendered as North, however the question of internationalization came up, and was so valid and pressing I thought it prudent to start a conversation about the topic. ( If you're curious, the original bug report: https://github.com/ Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/issues/4918 ) Angela
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