I am not trying to change any accepted local rule. Mvg Peter Elderson
Op 11 aug. 2018 om 06:13 heeft Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven: >> I find it hard to understand why some mappers do not want to map reality. >> Unless it's because they wish the street >> signs were really monolingual. There are people where I live who object to >> any use of English, should I cater to >> their whims by amending all names around here to remove the English text or >> should I map what is there? > > I find it hard to understand why non-Belgians try to change a rule > that is accepted by the Belgian community. The name field contains the > name of the object as known by the local people. Not what an > Englishmen or anyone else knows the place as. There is no 1 name, > there are multiple names that have to be placed in 1 field. We could > have chosen a semi-colon, as dash, or a any other separator. We chose > " - ". The decision was taken before I joined the project in 2011. > Perhaps the decision was influenced by what the rendered map looks > like. Avenue Simon Bolivar - Simon Bolivarlaan make more sense on a > map, looks nicer than "Avenue Simon Bolivar;Simon Bolivarlaan" or > whatever. I doubt there are maps that show the contracted name. > > The name for Belgium "Belgique - België - Belgien" will not be found > on the signs you see when you enter the country. The sign depends on > the language spoken in the area at the border. So when you arrive in > Belgium on the Flemish side you will see "België". Will you change the > name when you survey the area there ? > > Traditional maps show the 3 names, I don't know which separator they > use, but it's unlikely they used ";". > > m. > > p.s. from a discussion on Welsh street names on the UK mailing list, I > doubt it is accepted that you write both the Welsh name and the > English name in the name field. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
