>>> With my first go a couple of weeks back for 8 languages I did do >>> fallback to at least 'name' using views as suggested on the wiki, >>> setting this up for 40 languages however was somewhat less trivial >>> and I felt that there would be a benefit to being able to display >>> languages with no fallback... >> I think, here would a feature like name:local_lang=de, >> name:de=Deutschland be very useful. This would also help in order to >> have a map done in a chosen language, without blanks in the country >> (countries) where this language is the default value. >> paj > > But does it really make sense to tag every object inside a country with > the same name:local_lang tag? Talk about data duplication...
It depends... in Switzerland, you will have at least the following 4 elements that will appear: name:local_lang=de name:local_lang=fr name:local_lang=it name:local_lang=roh (using ISO 639-3) Romansh is the 4th national language, (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language for more) Some administrative entites are of one language (like Genevae using French) other are using two or more languages within their boundaries. I even know a town where Quarters at the West part are named in French, and those of the East part are in German and so used locally. (despite having on both side a name in both languages)... regards _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
