On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 04:36:58PM +0300, Tal wrote: > Regarding the "official language", or more precisely, which of the available > languages to use, I've always felt that this is a rendering issue, sort of. I > mean, that this is a higher level knowledge that should be an input to the > rendering software, in addition to the osm db, much like the rule file. This > new knowledge, which might reside in the rule file, should not be a part of > the > osm db. I'm totally with you, it should be a thing for the renderer. But ... if you don't know in which language the name-tag is in, it's hard to decide which language to take.
An example. I want a German map, but when there are no German names I'd prefer English ones. No you encounter a street: name=Bergstrasse name:en=Mountain Road Which text do you print on the map? I think we need a way to tell the renderer which language(s) are used for the name, ref, desc, ...-tags. And actually I don't see a political problem, because it just adds some additional information about something which is already there. And in cases where you have several languages in the name-tag you should use the same order for the language-tag. (That doesn't have to imply any "importance" or what-so-ever). I just create a feature proposal, maybe things will get clearer with it: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Language_of_this_element greetings, Stephan -- Seid unbequem, seid Sand, nicht Öl im Getriebe der Welt! - Günther Eich ,---------------------------------------------------------------------. | Stephan Plepelits, | | Technische Universität Wien - Studium Informatik & Raumplanung | | > openstreetbrowser.org > couchsurfing.com > tubasis.at > bl.mud.at | | sk...@xover.htu.tuwien.ac.at - My Blog: http://plepe.at | `---------------------------------------------------------------------' _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk