On 07/01/2020 13:40, Jeroen Hoek wrote:
If done correctly, this would mean you could search OSM for a flag
copy/pasted from somewhere (like chat), and get the region represented
by that flag as a search result.
So to me it seems that this isn't so much about getting the emoji for
the Statue of Liberty to resolve (although that is possible), but more
about being to use country flags to search OSM for the corresponding
country.
Of course the proposal should reflect on how to ensure the correct
Regional Indicator Symbol pairs are added. One way to do this, is by
using the exsiting ISO3166-1:alpha2 and flag keys, and verify that the
flag rendered via Regional Indicator Symbols matches the flag-value.
Countries in OSM should already include the ISO3166 code as a tag. Data
consumers, or OSM based search engines, could just interpret the emoiji
search term as 2 regular ASCII characters, and do the look up there. No
need for a separate emoiji tag.
If you add it as a separate tag, then there's the risk that data becomes
different from the ISO code.
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