On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Alexander Sidorov <alexi...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello! > > Is there any way to implement the following localization strategy: > 1. display russian (russian is just for example) name if it exists > 2. display english name if russian name doesn't exists > 3. display local name otherwise > > The problem for me is to determine which language is used for some region > by default. I have found this > discussion<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Language_of_this_element>but > without solution. > > Regards, > Alexander > > The proposed feature is clearly not a solution since it is suggesting to add the same tag "language=xxx" in ALL named elements within the region. I think the right approach would be to set this default language in the polygon identifying the region, most probably in the administrative boundary relation. Then you could build up a query to apply this default value in your local gis db. (or deprecate the tag name and force the locale suffix). Pieren
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