On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Donald Allwright < donald_allwri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >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) > > How would you deal with something like: > name=Paris > name:fr=Paris > name:es=Paris > name:en=Paris > name:sl=Pariz so we can scratch at least that one out from the list of all possible local languages to give that Paris pixel a bit more yellowish tone ;) I did say such language maps could be nice, not necessarily exact. Stefan > > ? > You can't really tell the default language from this. It would only work if > we can guarantee that only where the name is different in a specific > language is it tagged - I've not checked but I'd guess there are lots of > examples of (strictly speaking superfluous) tags like this. There will also > be cases where the only difference is an accent on a letter - this will work > if correctly tagged, but there will probably be a lot of errors in the > tagging where an accent missed off in the native language. (e.g. Peru vs > Perú). > > Cheers, > Donald > >
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