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> On 10. Aug 2018, at 00:42, Daniel McCormick <mccorm...@kaartgroup.com> wrote:
> 
> While the default renderer favors name=* over name:nl or name:fr that is not 
> the case for other renderers. We as contributors might think that is the most 
> prominent way to view the data but not all renderers are the same. Having our 
> data be specific in saying this is the French name, this is the Flemish name 
> and this is the German name gives the data more flexibility than just having 
> all languages thrown into one name=* field.



nobody questions the usefulness of name:language tags, the question is only 
what, if anything, to put in the name tag in multilingual areas (and also this 
is a term which can describe a lot of different realities, which not 
necessarily have to be treated all the same).

Cheers,
Martin 
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