Hi, On 06.12.19 11:46, Martin Constantino–Bodin wrote: > The question I would like to ask is about the relevance of having a > “name” tag in places where there is no default language—knowing that all > the “name:en”, “name:eo”, etc. are already there. I can imagine that > some renderers might expect to always be a tag “name”, and I wonder how > fixable this is (especially in the cases where there is a localised > name).
I think that the absence of these features on standard maps would not hurt anyone. "European Union" or "Atlantic Ocean" aren't usually rendered anyway. And it would increase the incentive for map makers to use the name:xx values and make maps in the language requested by the viewer. I have reverted a recent edit in which the "name" tag was removed from some "international" objects by a user (on the grounds of "if I cannot have an Esperanto name then nobody shall have a name for that object!"), however in principle, if the community came to the conclusion that this was a good idea, I would not be opposed. At one point in the distant past, there were two groups edit-warring about the name tag for Jerusalem, and it was decided that Jerusalem should not have a name tag at all until they agree on one. Perhaps that idea could be rolled out globally. We've even had the radical idea of removing the "name" tag everywhere, and instead have some way of tagging the default language for regions, so that, if you wanted to emulate today's rendering of the "local name" for everything, you'd first have to look up the local language prefix and then use the appropriate name:xx - but this was considered too complicated. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
