I have been trying to render maps from the osm data and the multilingual place names in the [name] tags has been an issue. There are all sorts of formats: [<latin>], [<latin> <local>], [<local> <latin>], [<latin> (<local>)], [<local> (<latin>)], [<local>].
I feel for the sake of consistency, only the latin name be entered into the [name] tag, and the local language one in the [name:hi] or similar tag with the two letter language code. Otherwise the inconsistent name tags is just going to make processing the data cumbersome. I'm going to move the local names into the name: subtags, let me know if anyone has an issue with that. No data is going to be lost, only that the default osm tiles will only show the latin names. But then again its time we set up india tile servers for indian languages so that localization can be carried out in a more consistent manner. cheers, -- j.mp/ArunGanesh <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
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