On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> wrote: > Frederik Ramm <frederik <at> remote.org> writes: > >>>Given that, and the user's preferred languages [en, fr], what name should be >>>picked? The program cannot know that the name 'Scotland' is in English >> >>Why? Are there places in Scotland that have a Gaelic name in the "name" >>tag? > > There may be, but in the absence of other information, how would you write a > program to work out that name=Scotland must be in English and not some other > language? > > We could add per-country or per-geographical-area rules about what the > 'default' > language is. But that seems like the wrong answer, and would give the wrong > result in many cases.
"In a few cases", the thing is you want to make those areas anyways right? Then people who care about the area can go and fix them. I.e. your welsh example would be fixed almost directly, except some corner cases. -- /emj _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
