On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 6:57 PM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Being able to speak each country's highway lingua franca would make it a > lot easier for OSM to become the Rosetta Stone of maps simply from ease of > classification. > > That would mean using "jalan=provinsi" instead of "highway=primary" in > Indonesia, so any global map service (like opencyclemap.org) would > need to interpret all these tags from different languages. If you > limit this to just official languages there would be several hundred > to translate, but there are over 1500 languages with a written > language currently: I don't see why we would limit things to just > official languages. > I'm not arguing in favor of a change in language for key name. But the local broadly accepted classification terminology (preferably in English for consistency sake) for the value.
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