Hi, What's the international name here? I think int_name should be used only where there is one "main" international name, that could lead as a fallback for any name not given explicitly, like Beijing (didn't check the spelling now) for what Germans calls Peking, Chinese write in their own symbols and so on. Here Beijing is the name the city is promoted usually in an international context, although different countries and languages have their own names for it. For Sidon the parts are individual localized names: Sayda => name:sv, name:tr Sidonas => name:lt Sidone => name:it Sidón => name:cs, name:es, name:gl Sydon => nme:pl Sídon => name:is, name:pt Şaydā, => name:et Σιδώνα, => name:el Сидон => name:sr Sidon => name:cy, name:de, name:eu, name:fr, name:hr, name:id, name:kl, name:pam, name:la, name:ms, name:nl, name:no, name:ro, name:sco, name:sl, name:sh, name:fi
(I skipped a few because Thunderbird is nearly unusable navigating through a mixed text of left-to-right and right-to-left languages and/or because there isn't a corresponding localized wikipedia page where I could have matched the languages). Probably Sidon would qualify for int_name here, but int_name should be splitted to individual tags for the languages they correspond to. regards Peter Am 20.11.2013 11:07, schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > I recently noticed that there are very long values in int_name for some > cities in Near East, e.g. the City of Sidon: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/564348842 > with the int_name value: > Saida,Sayda,Saïda,Sidon,Sidon"",Sidonas,Sidone,Sidón,Sydon,Sídon,Şaydā,Σιδώνα,Сидон,Сидонъ,צידון,صيدا,صَيْدَا,サイダ, > Sidon > > What is your opinion on these, wouldn't that go better into different name > tags? > > What about the name, name:ar, alt_name and name_ar1 tags, on my system they > look identical? If they really are, it would be bettter to just have name > and name:ar and drop the duplicates. > > cheers, > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
