Adding a language=xx to each feature seems excessive, and will be forgotten most of the time, unless there is some extensive tool support for it. Adding it to admin regions seems like a better approach. Some utility could then calculate a clean translation map, using admin_level number as the deciding factor in case of multiple values.
On a side note, a validation tool can than be used to check if "name" has the same value as "name:xx", where xx is taken from that calculated map. (I'm sure in many cases it won't match because some places use "lang:local - lang:en" style of naming for the name tag. On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:48 PM, Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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