Le 06.01.20 à 16:35, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit : > in OpenStreetMap we’re trying to represent the current state of things
I agree with that. > English using it in international context as a fallback. yes as a fallback, not as a rule "international -> name=name:en" but if a lake is in a multi-lingual area, if a country has several official languages, if a sea is bordered by countries which together have a very small number of names (2 or 3 in the case of the Baltic Sea) or even a name with a large majority, if a continent has a majority language, there is no obligation to use English as a fallback: if the local community around the lake decides to have a name other than English, if a country have a multilingual name, if the community of the countries around the Baltic Sea decides to use the most used name or a combination of the 3 most common, if a local majority of a continent decide to use Portuguese/Spanish or any other language that better represents the name as used there, I see no reason for this not to happen. but this must be done in a transparent way, (a message on the forum with announcements in the national lists?) and then documented on the multilingual names page, and not a mecanical edit because a contributor wants such a language. Once the language of the name tag is modified, I see no reason why the wikipedia language could not be modified in the same language as the name if that wikipedia page exists and is not a stub. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk