> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Names_localization
+1, generally; but I'm not keen on deprecating the bare "name=*" tag, because for many (perhaps most) named features, there is only one name. For example, a minor rural road in England will probably have a name (in English), but it won't have names in other languages, and no-one will really describe its name as "its English name" --- it's simply "its name". Multiple names are really an issue for multilingual countries and for major features (typically large cities, rivers, and perhaps mountains) in monolingual countries, and I suspect those are well under half of all the features that will ever be mapped. Having just suggested keeping it simple, I'll suggest a complication as well: multiple scripts for the same language. In particular, I'm thinking of mainland China, as it opens up more to interaction with "the West"; and, when I did an introductory course on Chinese language and culture, my teacher said the Chinese people begin learning to read and write using pinyin, rather than in Chinese script, so maybe we should ask Chinese mappers whether they're interested in it being convenient to have names in both. __John _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
