I thought we were already indicating which language name is in, with the name:language=:iso tag?
Hmm, apparently not: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Language_information_for_name Polyglot 2018-04-24 21:29 GMT+02:00 Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net>: > Paul Norman wrote: > > If there's agreement that there is a problem here, I could look > > at preparing a mechanical edit or MapRoulette challenge to add > > name:* tags, e.g. adding name:en to objects in the US with > > other name:* tags, and adding name:zh in China. As an > > estimate, this would be 115k changes in China, touching 28% > > of roads there. > > This is pretty fragile too, though. Two minutes after the mechanical edit, > a > newbie will come along and change the name= tag on a random American road > from MLK Boulevard to Martin Luther King Boulevard, without knowing they > now > have to change the name:en= tag as well. Bang, inconsistent data. Fast > forward two years and a bunch of history-losing way splits, and it's no > longer clear which is the accurate street name and which is the original, > mistaken TIGER-imported one. > > In theory you could bake support for this into editing software (at the > expense of complicating the interface), but even if JOSM, iD, Vespucci and > P2 all add support, the name= tag is probably the most likely to be changed > by minority editors (e.g. mobile or 'quick fix' apps) and it's unlikely > they'll all add the same logic. > > Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > This language=en tag would be placed on a administrative > > relation, right? > > If I read Frederik's proposal right, the language=en tag would be placed on > the object with the name tag, though putting it on admin relations is an > interesting idea. > > Richard > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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