On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:32:14 Maarten Deen wrote: > On 2012-04-16 14:15, Joseph Reeves wrote: > > As for Korea: > >>Should we add name:ko=서울특별시? > >> > > >Otherwise, how do we know the Korean name for this city? > > > > It seems to me that adding name:ko is duplicating data. We should be > > using the local names for the name: tag, so the Korean can go in > > there. I would then have this rendered as "name= (name:en=)" on the > > osm.org [8] mapnik tiles. Such a system could presumably be used > > worldwide (although I'm sure there are plenty of people that would > > disagree). Having said that, adding name:ko= isn't going to hurt and > > may be of use to other data consumers. > > Hopefully with worldwide you mean only the countries that do not use > latin script. It would not be pretty to see München (Munich) or worse: > Bruxelles - Brussel (Brussels).
I would love to be able to see a map with München (Munich) on it. I am going there on vacation, but I don't speak German. It would be handy to know the real name for the places I only know the English name of. I'm not advocating this for 'Standard' map tiles at osm.org, but some feature from some map service whereby I can get a nice map labelled with one or two languages of my choice. Best wishes, Andrew _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk