That is indeed a hard nut to crack. It's also an edge case (fortunately not too many of them)
To make the name tag more complete we could add the translation between parentheses. I realise it's not the standard way of working that we use for the 'easier' cases. Jo 2015-12-01 12:21 GMT+01:00 Sander Deryckere <sander...@gmail.com>: > How should this way be tagged? http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/30126046 > > The right side is in Heuvelland (Flanders), and has only a Flemish name: > Komenweg > > The left side is in Comines-Warneton (Wallonia), which is a > French-speaking municipality with Dutch language facilities, so has a name > in both languages: Chemin des Quatre Rois - Vierkoningenweg. > > Now, for names that differ by language, we usually write them as name:nl > and name:fr. For streetnames that differ by side of the street, we usually > write them as name:left and name:right. But how should this be combined > (note that two municipalities with language facilities might also border > each other). > > What do you think about the following tags? > > name=Komenweg - Chemin des Quatre Rois > > name:right=Komenweg >> > name:left=Chemin des Quatre Rois >> > name:left:fr=Chemin des Quatre Rois >> > name:left:nl=Vierkoningenweg >> > > Also note that the street continues towards the boundary between > Heuvelland and Mesen (which is a Flemish municipality with French language > facilities). There if could be tagged > > > >> name=Komenweg - Vierkoningenstraat >> > name:right=Komenweg >> > name:left=Vierkoningenstraat >> > name:left:fr=Rue des Quatre Rois >> > name:left:nl=Vierkoningenstraat > > > You might wonder why I use name:left:fr instead of name:fr:left. Well, I > figured I couldn't make a name:fr tag as there's no translation of > Komenweg. So name:left:fr looks as a conceptual subtag of the existing > name:left. > > What do you think of it? Someone has other opinions? > > Regards, > Sander > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > >
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