Judging from the examples cited in the thread, such as Scotland being tagged in both English and French, we aren't limited to just names in the country's official languages. French is not an official language in Scotland.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Explicit tagging of name language >From :mailto:pier...@gmail.com Date :Tue Dec 07 03:04:37 America/Chicago 2010 On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:32 PM, <j...@jfeldredge.com <mailto:j...@jfeldredge.com> > wrote: For example, the official language of France is French, but it has 24 regional languages in the European region of the country, and 51 additional regional languages in overseas territories, according to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_France>. Yes but by chance only one official "name" for all places. Which is not the case in some other countries. Pieren _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
