Hi, sorry, I have been of for some days.. > 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...
Thanks, you explain it better than me. I agree with you proposition name:local_lang would be better suited. How could we push this proposition further? This is strictly spoken not a new tag. Simply add a remark on the wiki-page or start a submission process? regards paj _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
