2009/1/19 Hakan Tandogan <ha...@gurkensalat.com>: > > On Thu, January 15, 2009 14:31, Stefan Baebler wrote: >>>> 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
I was wondering about links to wikipedia in national languages and asked about it on IRC recently and settled on tagging with wikipedia=en:Venice rather than wikipedia:en=Venice (actually I use the form wikipedia=<language>:Page_Title only for non-english articles and wikipedia=Page_Title if English is available). I try to tag not only major place names but also anything else that has a page. Using "wikipedia=" instead of "wikipedia:<language>=" is good because it strongly suggests that there is only one such tag per object instead of many and avoids having conflicting translations with those in wikipedia. > > This is one reason why I add the geonames ID of country objects to the > node. If necessary, a renderer could pull additional names from geonames, > if / when they become available, without having to go to Wikipedia and > parse the information found there. Slightly off-topic, the recently added low-zoom country map display (mapnik) apparently pulls data from outside OSM database. I spotted a typo (or what I think is a typo) and wanted to correct it and found that the name with a typo was nowhere in the database. I think the renderer should only pull data from sources that we can fix. Where does the data come from? Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
