I think Japanese names are a good example how complex name tags can be, see: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Japan_tagging#Names
There are altogether listed 5 tags for a name: name:ja_rm or name:en are what you can read without knowing Japanese characters. name:ja_rm is probably what will not be rendered usually, but this would be the name written for example on street signs as name in latin characters. name:ja_kana is what was mentioned in a previous email, because it helps Japanese people to know the reading of a name. It's also useful for geocoding. Daniel On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Peter Wendorff <wendo...@uni-paderborn.de>wrote: > Am 16.04.2012 09:54, schrieb Maarten Deen: > >> Wouldn't it be an idea to tag the name in the characterset of the country >> and have the renderer decide whether or not to render a name:en tag with >> the name tag? >> > I don't think it's a simple task to decide from the unicode representation > of osm tags about the character set of the country, as it's not "encoded" > in that way. > name:en might additionally not be what we want internationally. > Let's take Beijing as an example: > - it's something in chinese glyphs as a local name (and I'm not sure, if > there aren't several variants even in chinese > - in Germany it's called "Peking", which originates in south china > (according to wikipedia) > - Gaeilge language uses Béising > - Italians use Pechino > > In this case English seems to use the "right" transcription "Beijing", but > I'm sure there are other cases, where English (or at least British English) > uses a more "customized" version, e.g. from colonialism. > >> I don't know if the renderingrules allow such a decision to make. After >> all, the renderingrules decide how the map looks like, and I can understand >> if countries that do not use latin script want to render a "latin-clean" >> map. >> And: do not tag for the renderer. Entering names twice is tagging for the >> renderer. >> > +10 > > regards > Peter > > ______________________________**_________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk> > -- Georepublic UG & Georepublic Japan eMail: daniel.ka...@georepublic.de Web: http://georepublic.de
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