>> where is a local language being set for a country or a region? > It isn't at all. The software doesn't know which language "name" is in, only > the mapper does. Software can only gues the language of the default name from an identical name value with a specified language.
eg: name=Venezia name:en=Venice name:sl=Benetke name:de=Venedig ... can additonally be tagged with name:it=Venezia This could be used to make nice maps of default languages, if only it was used more than just on major cities (smaller places rarely have foreign names) With just one tag precisely describing the name (with language) all other translations could be pulled from wikipedia (enriching maps with additional languages) when needed eg such precise tag could be wikipedia:en=Venice Stefan _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
