Actually in Croatia there are a lot of locations which have bilingual names, for example there are towns/villages in Baranja region<http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C4%91ari_u_Hrvatskoj> populated by Hungarian minority, then there is Czech minority in and around Daruvar<http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daruvar>and Končanica <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon%C4%8Danica>. It seams to me that we have one rule for Istria and one for every other region, which I think is wrong and inconsistent.
The best solution IMHO is to use the official name from geonames, for example http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=rovinj&country= and define tags as Bernhard wrote: name=Rovinj name:it=Rovigno Best regards, Davor On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Janko Mihelić <jan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, there has been a lot of discussion about this, and no real solution. > Japanese are putting "their (english)" names, just so tourists could read > their map (bad solution IMO). We could make a script that has a list of > bilingual towns (or we could invent a tag, something like > multilingual=hr;it), and that script would put "name:hr / name:it" into the > "name" tag. But until then, I think this is the best solution. > > Janko > > 2012/6/19 Bernhard R. Fischer <b...@abenteuerland.at> > > > ** > > > > On Monday 18 June 2012 14:02:23 Janko Mihelić wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure if you are right. Those towns have two official languages, > > > > > Croatian and Italian. Towns around Trieste also have two languages, and > > are > > > > > named like that (I thought Trieste was also named like this). Those > parts > > > > > of Croatia, Slovenia and Italy have a complicated history and I think > we > > > > > have to have more discussion about this to get to the best solution. > > > > > > > > > > Janko > > > > > > > > Yes, I am well aware of these language issues in Istria. We have > > bi-lingual towns in Austria as well and they are tagged in the same way > but > > nevertheless I think that this is why there are tags like "name:hr=*", > > "name:it=*", and so and. > > > > > > > > IMO the renderer should be responsible for generating the combined > strings > > and not the map editor. > > > > > > > > Bernhard > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-hr mailing list > Talk-hr@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-hr > _______________________________________________ Talk-hr mailing list Talk-hr@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-hr