For my use, that proposal is pretty good. However, I'd like to discuss two points.
1) This proposal will not help the Brussels map, where a similar need exists. In Brussels they want the default map to show street names in France and Dutch. see http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.77218&lon=4.38126&zoom=15&layers=B000FTTT for a road with these tags: name="Avenue de la Sapinière - Denneboslaan" <--- could be "{name:fr} - {name:nl}" name:fr="Avenue de la Sapinière" name:nl="Denneboslaan" 2) Sometime an object (node/way/relation) contains more then one translatable tag. For example, a house address is a node with addr:housenumber="12Alef" <----- translatable addr:street="Herzel" <----- translatable addr:city="Tel-Aviv" <----- translatable addr:country="IL" addr:full="........" <----- translatable building=yes name="Azrieli Shopping Mall" <----- translatable Do we want to add a single a tag for each translatable tag: addr:housenumber:lang=de addr:street:lang=de addr:citylang=de addr:full:lang=de name:lang=de or do we want a single tag to indicate the text labels for the entire node/way/relation? Tal On Sat Mar 14 12:39:42 GMT 2009, Pierre-André Jacquod <pjac...@lumni.ethz.ch > wrote: >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
