I would expect Frederik to be even more disappointed if we were to first duplicate name to name:XX and then have another round of edits to remove name.
At some point JOSM's valdiator was telling me to add name:language, so I did. That's where some of those Belgian entries probably come from for the objects I had been changing for other reasons. Polyglot Op wo 26 sep. 2018 om 12:02 schreef Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de>: > On Wednesday 26 September 2018, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > > > I added a comment on avoiding duplication - I would be very unhappy > > if every feature on the planet that currently only has a name tag > > would now be amended with an identical name:xx tag just because xx is > > the language spoken in that country! > > Yes, this is probably the key obstacle to all attempts to abolish the > plain name tag (with all its inherent problems) because at least > temporarily (until a new name tagging system is fully established) > there would be need to keep the old name tag and any adoption of the > new system would require duplication. There is no solution for this, > it is an inevitable side effect of actually solving the naming problem > in OSM instead of just doctoring around the symptoms. > > But the good news is that both the proposal of Joseph and my suggestion > would allow a simple an reliable fallback to the current tagging scheme > so once most data users are capable of interpreting the new scheme you > could smoothly convert the tagging feature by feature without > duplication and without a negative effect on usability. > > The big problem of this approach however is that you would need to > convince data users to implement interpretation of a new tagging system > up-front without the database containing significant amounts of data > where this would be useful for. This is not just buying the cat in a > sac, it is like building a home for the cat without having seen it yet. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
_______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
