The international language would be English. It is after all the language of trade and as a consequence absorbed many words from other languages.
But that is taking a pragmatic view and is only one minor voice amongst all the contributors. There will be many other voices decrying its use. One approach would be to tag name:en in areas where the local language differs or the local written language is unusable by a significant number of people either because of hardware / software issues or literacy issues. Cheerio John On Fri, 6 Dec 2019, 11:00 am Andy Townsend, <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/12/2019 15:10, Tomek wrote: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305640277 > > W dniu 19-12-06 o 16:08, Tomek pisze: > > EN > Is this change acceptable and can I continue? > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/78060265 > > > Not yet. Wait what people say in reply. > > I personally am not a fan of using 8 different names in one name tag > (though some countries that have multiple equal languages do favour that > nationally). The example here "Baltijas jūra / Baltijos jūra / Itämeri / > Läänemeri / Morze Bałtyckie / Östersjön / Østersøen / Ostsee / Балтийское > море" seems a bit clumsy. > > Is there an international language used within shipping worldwide? > Perhaps that would be a better option than this. > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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