Dec 4, 2020, 12:43 by frede...@remote.org: > I have often argued for just dropping name:X if it is the name as name, > because I would assume that every language-specific map or other use > case would revert to the name tag if no language-specific name was present. > > The counter-argument was usually that if Washington has a > name:de=Washington then you positively know that this is the name used > in Germany, whereas if it doesn't have a name:de tag it might just be > "not yet mapped". > Also, with explicit language tags you can do fallback to other languages (as described in detail in other posting). This way you can do "I prefer name:pl, use name:de otherwise, if neither is present use name:en, if nothing is available, use name tag".
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