2009/8/14 Peter Körner <osm-li...@mazdermind.de>:
> Martin Koppenhoefer schrieb:
>> Am 14. August 2009 13:34 schrieb Peter Körner <osm-li...@mazdermind.de>:
>>> I understand your concerns when looking at the country-level, but what
>>> should we do on the city-level? add the name of all cities in all
>>> languages as a translation? Or: what should we do with the languages
>>> that are not covered by wikimedia?
>>
>> yes, as long as there is a translation of a city-name (or other
>> feature, think about "colosseo", "Kolosseum", etc.) different to the
>> name in the local language, we should add the tags in these languages.
>> There is probably also different alt_names for the same feature in
>> different languages (e.g. "flavisches Amphitheater")
>
> But this implicates that if there is no different name, no name:xx-tag
> should be set (even if it's not *bad* to have one, its also not
> *necessary*). Do you agree with that, Marc?

don't know about Marc, but I agree: if there is no different
name/spelling, don't put it.

cheers,
Martin

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