2009/3/9 <marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com> > On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:51:28 +0100, Pierre-André Jacquod > <pjacq...@alumni.ethz.ch> wrote: > > A possibility would be to never use name=, but only name:XX=xxxx and > > have a tag name:local=XX in order to indicate which is the local one. > > For rendering, a default rule could be that if there is only one > > name:XX=xxx without name:local=... then it will use the name:XX whatever > > XX is. > > Your "name:local" is the same as the "name" everyone is already using. > Few things actually have names in more then one language on the map. >
What Pierre-André has suggested though, seems to be different to "name" in that rather than having name:local contain the name, what he's actually suggesting is that the value of name:local refers to the local language, perhaps better named as name:local_lang, so that for Germany there would be, for example, the following tags... place=country name:de=Deutschland name:en=Germany name:fr=Allemagne name:ja=ドイツ name:th=ประเทศเยอรมนี name:zh=德国 name:local=de Many things actually have names in more than one language on the map... Country names, city names, and in some parts of the world, virtually every named object have multiple language names... d
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