Jacek Konieczny wrote: > You don't need multiple values. Other languages are linked in Wikipedia, > no need to duplicate this in OSM. > > If a place is described in 20 national Wikipedias do we really want 20 > wikipedia=XX:<name> tags in OSM when only single wikipedia=XX:<name> > links to all the pages?
If you want to be able to render maps for a specific language or territory, yes. Having the WP shortcut version means that if I wanted to link to the English version of a WP page when we have only the Polish version, I have to retrieve the Polish page from WP and parse it to find the link to the English version. This means I can't do this rendering offline, and would slow the job down somewhat. > And more. You need no special handling for wikipedia=XX: links. Except you do -- special handling from an OSM point of view. The convention of <tag>:<lang> = <value> is already well-established. -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk